Marvin Olasky's America | Here's my highly, highly subjective list of the top dozen major
league ballparks. I haven't been to five ballparks---the new homes
of the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Minnesota Twins,
and Detroit…
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The funniest paragraph we read on the road was in
USA Today
's lead story on June 11, "Diversity grows as majority dwindles,"
by Haya El Nasser and Paul…
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NEW YORK---After visiting six ballparks in seven days, here are
some of my questions about stadium design and scoreboard use: 1.
Does the ballpark make use of…
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BOSTON---After the Kansas City game we turned in our rental car and
flew from Kansas City to Boston. Final stop: Fenway Park, where
from 1962 through 1966 I…
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KANSAS CITY---We had watched the Royals win a close, extra-inning
game in Cincinnati last Friday night, and on Tuesday night they had
batting practice against…
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HANNIBAL, Mo.---The advent of railroads and bridges put most
ferries out of business, but the Middle Mississippi River Valley
offers six ferries, two of which…
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ST. LOUIS---Monday evening Susan and I met some terrific WORLD
readers in the new Busch ballpark, which has a great view past
center field of downtown…
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MOUNT OLIVE, Ill.---Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's great novel
reinvents himself, but so did historic Americans like Mary "Mother"
Jones and Samuel "Mark…
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ST. LOUIS---We've come here after visiting Abraham Lincoln's home
in Springfield, Ill. He was a successful railroad lawyer during the
1850s and his wife,
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.---"The Great Diagonal Way . . . The Mother Road .
. . The Main Street of America," taking folks looking for work or
play from Chicago to…
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CHICAGO---One of the Milwaukee ballgame conversations Saturday
night concerned work. Lutheran pastor Don Thompson described a
Midwestern work ethic: "If you…
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MILWAUKEE---Every day has required us to overcome mild obstacles
such as torrential rains and a birthday flat tire on the interstate
in Chicago's South Side…
