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Why Are the the Washington Nationals So Bad? Blame It on a Ghost
By Lee Speigel - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- As the baseball season winds down and the best teams head into the playoffs, one team -- the Washington Nationals -- has consistently played so badly that some are speculating that it may be (shudder) haunted. A Baltimore Sun article suggests the ghost of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, may be the cause of the ongoing mediocrity of the Nationals' on-field play since they arrived in the nation's capital in 2005. When the former Montreal Expos moved into their new home, Nationals Park, in 2008, they probably didn't notice that the stadium, situated near ...
Baseball Fans Rally to Honor Forgotten 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' Scribe
By Chris Epting - AOL News(July 9) -- It looks like Jack Norworth, lyricist for baseball's unofficial national anthem, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," may be getting his due after all. Strange that just three months ago in an AOL Weird News story, I wrote about how the man who penned the lyrics for one of our nation's most familiar anthem's was laid to rest in a small, all-but-forgotten plot of earth -- within view of Anaheim Stadium. How could a game that pays so much attention to its own history have allowed this to slip through the cracks? Didn't Jack Norworth not deserve at least a little more notoriety? As it ...
A Reluctant Soccer Mom
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyI had a formative cultural experience in London last night. No, it didn't entail that controversial new Damien Hirst exhibit at the Wallace Collection. Nor did I catch that hot new production at the Donmar Warehouse. Nope. My cultural immersion was much more authentically British: I attended my first professional soccer game. ...
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