sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/21/2008
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sports.espn.go.com - 11/21/2008
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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 ...
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Bud Selig: Major League Baseball to ban shortened ...
beyondtheboxscore.com - 11/20/2008
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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
mlb.mlb.com - 11/21/2008
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NEW YORK -- October weather has become less
of a concern. All of Major League Baseball's future...
playoff games will be a minimum of nine innings, Commissioner Bud Selig announced on Thursday, in accordance with a rule change approved at the MLB owners ...
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Nine innings in playoff games ensured | MLB.com: News
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Baseball Adds Postseason Weather Rule So Bud Selig Doesn’t Look Silly Again
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
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 Bud Selig just waited until the Rays (thankfully) scored and then threw the game into a rain delay and it was eventually called for rain? Me too.
Well, this sort of thing ain’t ever gonna happen again:
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig ...
Phillies World Series Forever Changes Face of MLB Playoffs
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae —
... , Bud Selig spoketh, "All postseason games, All-Star games and that, will be full-length
affairs, and the rule will be so written," Selig said Thursday
following an owners' meeting. ...
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