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To Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox – does anyone sing?

Hardly anyone sings the Star Spangled banner, to the dismay of my companion, CC, a baseball traditionalist (who does sing)…I am a visitor, so I am forgiven. The line “the land of the free” does get the crowd cheering, but why wait so long to participate? “They are all too uptight”, is CC’s diagnosis – …

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Throwing a curveball – why not bowl one?

I nearly got to watch a live baseball game at the weekend…until persistent rain caused the game to be called. But I was thinking about what baseball pitchers do with a baseball – and it’s a lot more than just hurling it through at 100 mph. They use spin-swerve to get the pitch off straight, …

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