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To: Pelham
Baseball is about baseball.

Baseball, the American pastime

Maybe baseball's about baseball because so many of the players are foreigners.

22 posted on 09/28/2017 1:34:10 PM PDT by x (Stop the hammering!)
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To: x
Maybe baseball's about baseball because so many of the players are foreigners.

I suppose if you are a Dominican here earning nice money, and your alternative would be to go back home and harvest sugar cane for six bucks a day, you are going to behave VERY respectfully during the anthem.


24 posted on 09/28/2017 1:36:19 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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It certainly took root in the rest of the Americas and in Japan. Not so much elsewhere. I’d be curious to know if Japan picked it up in the postwar era from American troops.


42 posted on 09/28/2017 10:05:52 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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