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Peanuts, Popcorn, and Earmuffs |
| Section: LIFE / HUMOR |
| Author: Rick Wolff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,219 Words, 6,851 Characters |
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Good afternoon, baseball fans, and a toasty warm welcome to all of our television viewers from coast-to-coast. It's a beautiful winter's day here in New York--temperature hovering around thirteen degrees, eight inches of fresh new snow on the ground, and a gusty windchill factor of minus twenty degrees. It's 'picture postcard' weather for a typical Saturday afternoon in January and, that's right, just perfect for the Opening Day festivities of the United States Baseball League!
Playing Big League baseball in the snowy off-season? Oh sure, you've heard all the skeptics and all the cynics and all the cold-hearted baseball purists who said it couldn't be done. They all claimed it would be too cold; that fans wouldn't turn out; that even the game itself would be dramatically changed b...
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...crowd. Oh, look!
Standing right next to Mr. Ueberroth is the former Commissioner of baseball, Mr. Bowie Kuhn--he's the gentleman without the overcoat.
Now assembling in front of the Commissioner's box is the Polar Bear Club of America, ready to sing our National Anthem. And, as they do, we can see Nanook--everybody's favorite Eskimo--getting ready to throw out the first ball… vbcrlf
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