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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch

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To: Cactus Jack who wrote (5551)8/31/2002 3:36:10 AM
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Baseball Without Metaphor

By DAVID GRANN
New York Times Magazine
September 1, 2002

<<...One night last fall Barry Bonds, the demon of America's pastime, caught a glimpse of his own redemption. The player who had been called a ''prima donna,'' a ''phony,'' ''overrated,'' ''a cancer'' and a ''spiritual drain on baseball'' was about to do what no one had ever done. He was having the greatest season in the history of the game, and now the 37-year-old San Francisco Giant was on the verge of breaking the single-season home-run record set by Mark McGwire only three years earlier -- and finally, as he had always vowed, ''melt'' his critics' pens...>>

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