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Fenway West found this 4/15/2008 on www.reuters.com [flag]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The ceremonial first pitch in Wednesday's Major League Baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox will be thrown from aboard the International Space Station, the Yankees announced. U.S. astronaut Garrett Reisman, a lifelong Yankees fan, will throw the ball aboard the space station with video of the event beamed to a giant screen inside the stadium, ... [link]

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First Pitch In Red Sox -YankeeGame Will Be From Space
Published 4/15/2008 by Fenway West at Fenway West
... Yes you are reading the title correctly, and no, Bill Lee will not be involved. A Yankee fan astronaut will throw out the first pitch on the International Space Station on Wednesday before the Red Sox-Yankees game. I guess Hank's mom wasn't available. Watch below: ...

Morning Juice: Yankees-Red Sox stage game that lasts ages
Published 4/17/2008 at Big League Stew
... . The four runs in that half of the inning countered the six Boston put up on a top frame that lasted 31 minutes ... or about enough time for that ceremonial first pitcher to return to Earth. ...

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