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VASCELLARO: Baseball has come a long way since the pandemic shut it down

The Baseball Lifer Baseball has come a long way since the pandemic shut it down Major League Baseball sure has come a long way. Consider where we were this time last year, at what would usually constitute Major League Baseball’s “Mid-Summer Classic” All-Star Game break, the abbreviated 2020 season had yet to begin. Delayed for three-and-half months by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 season did not begin until July 23, cancelling the All-Star Game for the first…

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Abandoning Atlanta? How About Moving All-Star Game To Coop

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Abandoning Atlanta? How About Moving All-Star Game To Coop Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the league will move its 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft from Atlanta. …MLB has yet to select an alternate host site, but might I suggest Cooperstown, NY? Given the short-term logistics of finding a new site, it would have the quaint feeling like Iowa’s Field of Dreams. Plus, it’s the perfect place to honor Aaron and those Hall of Fame…

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