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With a new baseball season opening, it's time again to re-enter the temples of baseball where the game is played.
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With a new baseball season opening, it's time again to re-enter the temples of baseball where the game is played.
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Transcript
Baseball season again. Time to re-enter the temples of baseball. Temples? Yes, temples.
To most people, baseball is merely a game. But to some others, it's virtually a religion, a game played in temples – the temples of baseball, be they Major League stadiums or any other baseball park at any level from the Major Leagues to the little parks at much lower levels where I played in hopes of making it big as a professional. But that's another story.
Of course baseball is a game. But it is indeed a game that's played in temples. Baseball parks are places of myth, superstition and legend, no less than the temples where the great myths, superstitions and legends of religion hold sway.
Even the most casual fan is likely to know the myths and legends that make up baseball's storied history. Babe Ruth's called-shot home run in the 1932 World Series, for example. His whole career, in fact.
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Commentator Dick Meister says there's something very special about baseball ballparks.
OUTRO:Veteran San Francisco journalist Dick Meister is a former semi-professional baseball player.
