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From: rkp@drutx.UUCP (Russ Pierce)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Artificial vs Grass
Message-ID: <2726@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 15:29:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 15:29:27 1985
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>Too bad that what I consider one of the other great problems in baseball
>can't be voted out: artificial turf. I hate the stuff; it is an 
>abomination. As surely as as the pitcher was meant to hit, baseball was meant
>to be played on grass. Some AL teams have artificial turf, but the NL is
>the big offender here. It's getting to the point where I hate to see those
>giant symmetric plastic ballparks (but somehow I can't turn off the tube;
>I'm hooked ). And don't get me started on domed stadiums...

I wouldn't jump all over the NL.  The NL is split with 6 grass and
6 artificial.  The AL is 8 grass and 6 artificial.  This isn't
that great of a difference between the two leagues.

GO BRAVES!!!

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