mouthpiecesports.com - 11/21/2008
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Remember how it was raining and raining and raining during Game 5 of the World Series and the game clearly should have been delayed/called because of it, but the game kept marching onward because if it didn’t the Phillies would have been World Series champions based on a rainout, but then ...
sports.espn.go.com - 11/21/2008
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sports.espn.go.com —
NEW YORK -- There has never been a
rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never...
will be. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad ...
(more)
Bud Selig: Major League Baseball to ban shortened ...
beyondtheboxscore.com - 11/20/2008
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beyondtheboxscore.com —
In Part I on Tuesday, we looked at
the early days of the AL and NL, as...
well as baseball's expansion into California. Today, we pick up where we left off, with the story of a man named Bud. Bud Selig and the Seattle Pilots The Seattle ...
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The History of the American and National League, Part II
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/21/2008
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Selig: MLB to ban shortened postseason games —
ESPN.com - MLB 11/20/2008
There has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never will be. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad weather.
