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Baseball Highlights
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Previews by Andrew Pettie
(e-mail: andrew@sportlist.com)
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New York Yankees v Toronto Blue Jays
With the New York currently eight games clear of both the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees will already be playing with one eye on the play-offs. They have just completed a three game sweep over the Red Sox at Fenway Park and despite being shut out 4-0 in a make-up game on Monday, New York are now playing some of their best baseball of the season.
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Olympic Baseball Guide
Considering
the bizarre egocentricity of American sport, it is perhaps not very surprising
that Derek Jeter, Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Jr. won't
be making the trip over to Sydney to represent their country - but will rather
be fighting it out in the major leagues for a place in the play-offs.
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Did
you know?
Baseball has always
been considered the most traditional and parochial of the American sports —
and rather like cricket it will always hold a unique place in the nation's sporting
affections. But even with the million-dollar transfers and embarrassing scandals,
the game still retains some interesting quirks that can be traced all the way
back to the 1800s…
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Say what?
Sportlist's Baseball glossary
Do you know your fungo
from your yakker? And would you be able to spot the difference between your Uncle
Charlie and a meatball? Like all great sports, baseball delights in an arcane
and confusing array of slang terms and technical mumbo-jumbo. So if you'd like
to face the chin music but stay out of the rhubarb — read on for Sportlist's
jargon-busting guide to the game.
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