The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 14th, 2002
COMMENTARY
In baseball, there's no crying for players
By GIL LEBRETON
Sunday, July 14, 2002
Fort Worth -- No sport -- none -- knows how to plunk the heartstrings better than baseball.
And so, there we were Tuesday night, transfixed again by baseball's annual Midsummer Classic.
Cue the James Earl Jones "Field of Dreams" speech. Bring on the kids. Wheel out the legends. Give the hometown boys a standing O.
There's no crying in baseball, but baseball tries. It tries.
When I was a kid, I used to get goose bumps at the chance to watch baseball's all-stars, gathered on the same field. But th...
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