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June 5, 2015

Strange But True!

Q. OK, baseball lovers, when can trivialities of the game seem almost maximally fun? Bear in mind that nothing is ever fixed, permanent, immutable.

A. It's when the almost sacred-seeming rules of today's games get compared to those of yesteryear. Take, for instance, the games of the late 1800s:


 
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