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To: Kaslin

Geez Ben: How did we ever get along when there were but 16 teams and none west of the Mississippi? When there was damned little spring training, when the post season was no greater than seven games? When parks held maybe 25,000 at most (less the House that Ruth built). When there was no such thing as an NBA. When pro-football was an Eastern joke. Somehow America survived. Perhaps because we paid more attention to our family than to our sports team?


18 posted on 06/17/2020 8:30:09 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf
The two St. Louis teams were west of the Mississippi (just barely). The two teams faced each other in the World Series for the first and last time in 1944. The St. Louis Browns are now the Baltimore Orioles.

The MLB channel has been running a lot of classic games (some World Series or playoff games or games notable for some other reason--like the game when Wade Boggs hit his 3,000th hit, the only player ever to do so with a home run). Another channel I get on cable has been showing a lot of old Braves games (mostly 2019).

But I would rather watch a live game than a replay.

57 posted on 06/17/2020 2:25:45 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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