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* Because you can keep the Playbill on your bookshelf

April 28, 2010

If you happen to be in Cooperstown this weekend: National Pastime, a new musical comedy about a fictitious, unbeatable baseball team, will be presented during a special performance on Saturday, May 1, at 7 p.m. in the Hall of Fame’s Grandstand Theater. The play — written by Tony Sportiello, with words and music by Al Tapper — tells […]

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* The real National Pastime

February 1, 2009

This piece by Bryan Curtis, a senior editor at The Daily Beast, tries to break down which pro sport really deserves to be known as “the” national pastime. The NFL is really making a push for that designation. “It recently sent out a 29-page white paper  [clickable via the NY Times article] that professional football […]

Tagged as: baseball vs. football, national pastime

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