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ajc: Bisher: Sayonara, baseball tradition (RR)
I understand that Mr. Bisher was at the Louisville Colonels 1896 home opener eating American-made cotten candy...but cripes all-mighty! Well, not any longer. Money can change any habit. Eight springs ago the Mets and Cubs opened the season, not in Cincinnati. Guess where? Tokyo. That Tokyo, the guys who gave us Pearl Harbor. Some people don’t like you to bring that up, trade with Japan is so ...
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Bisher’s Opening Day Bomb
Can't Stop The Bleeding — For the second time this week, a columnist from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has managed to find fault with MLB’s decision to open the 2008 season in Japan. First, Jeff Schultz weighed in, followed Wednesday by the venerable Furman Bisher (link swiped from Repoz and Baseball Think Factory), who presumably didn’t get up in time to watch Rich Harden (above) baffle the Red Sox this morning. Perhaps the AJC can go for the hat trick tomorrow with a guest editorial from John Rocker? Money can change any habit. ...

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