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	The National Club Baseball Association -- Official Site
		The NCBA is proud to announce Demarini as the official Baseball Bat of the NCBA through the 2008 season.
		The NCBA is proud to announce Richardson as the Official Baseball Cap of the NCBA through the the 2008 Season.
		The NCBA is proud to announce A.D. Starr as the Official Baseball Supplier of the NCBA through the the 2008 Season.
	www.clubbaseball.org (450 words)

	Articles - Sports timeline
		1919 in sports - Black Sox scandal in baseball
		1941 in sports - Ted Williams is the last batter in Major League Baseball to hit over.400
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	www.poncier.com /articles/Sports_timeline (450 words)

	New York City
		Yankee Stadium in the Bronx]] Although in much of the rest of the country American football has become the most popular professional sport, in New York City baseball arguably still stirs the most passion and interest.
		For most American baseball fans, the most intense rivalry is between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, but in the city the rivalry between the Yankees and the Mets is just as fierce.
		Following the 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson, European settlement began with the founding of the fortified Dutch fur trading settlement of New Amsterdam (''Nieuw Amsterdam'') in the New Netherland colony on the southern tip of Manhattan in 1626.
	new-york-city.ask.dyndns.dk (7901 words)

	Athletic Turf - An Olympic challenge: the Helleniko Olympic Baseball Centre
		Cook and his team consulted on baseball and softball field design, construction management and maintenance operations for the Olympic games in Sydney in 2000; and they'll be at it again for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
		Cook says the softball and baseball fields at the Helleniko Air Force Base 30 miles from downtown Athens were the equivalent of having a cricket pitch in downtown New York City.
		Two years ago, 27-year sports turf veteran Murray Cook got one of the biggest assignments of his career: turn an old abandoned airport 30 miles outside of Athens into a 7-field, world-class baseball stadium complex in time for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
	www.athleticturf.net /athleticturf/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=95091 (7901 words)

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		Baseball Canada: Baseball to return for 2008 Beijing Olympics
		Baseball has been recognized as a medal sport since 1992 after being held as a demonstration event in both the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
		All 28 federations whose sports currently make up the Olympic program will be represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics, provided they sign an agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency, IOC President Jacques Rogge said.
	www.baseball.ca /eng_news_story_print.cfm?NewsID=40 (7901 words)

	Ballpark Digest -- Baseball. Ballparks. Bliss.
		Of the issues Williams has promised to take up with baseball officials, the most important could be limiting the compensatory damages the city might have to pay if a new stadium is not completed by March 2008.
		Ripken Baseball pulled back its letter of intent to buy the Savannah Sand Gnats (Class A; Sally League) late yesterday afternoon.
		Ripken Baseball wants to keep the team in Savannah and is willing to make a long-term commitment if the city will put renovation funds into historic Grayson Field.
	www.ballparkwatch.com (7901 words)

	WHP CBS21 [Harrisburg] - Bob Watson named GM of USA Baseball
		Watson, who currently holds the position of vice president, on-field operations for the commissioner's office of Major League Baseball, will oversee the selection of the USA Baseball professional coaching staffs and players through 2008.
		With Watson at the helm, USA Baseball will compete in the 2005 IBAF World Cup in Rotterdam, Holland (Sept. 2-17), 2005 Copabe Olympic Regional Qualifying Tournament in San Salvador, El Salvador (November) and the 2006 World Baseball Classic in the United States (March 2006).
		Watson was co-chairman of the committee that selected the American players for the 2000 USA Baseball Olympic Gold Medal Team and the 1999 USA Baseball Pan Am Team that qualified the United States for the 2000 Olympic Games.
	www.whptv.com /sports/mlb/story.aspx?content_id=A3EA76E2-9E44-442D-8BDF-393EB3718D79 (441 words)

	Baseball Musings
		Baseball America, the ultimate arbiter of prospects and minor league player depth, says the Dodgers system is flush with talent that is due to arrive between 2006 and 2008.
		I started watching baseball in 1969, and the Orioles had a catching platoon of Elrod Hendricks and Andy Etchebarren.
		Talking Baseball sums up the Red Sox off season.
	www.baseballmusings.com (6305 words)

	WSU Athletics
		Wright State University women’s basketball coach Bridgett Williams, baseball coach Rob Cooper and softball coach Mike Larabee have had their contracts extended until the end of the respective 2008-09 seasons, WSU Athletics Director Mike Cusack announced today.
		Head Coach Rob Cooper, the Raiders coaching staff and players will be offering instruction throughout the fall in two camp sessions.
		The Wright State baseball program and head coach Rob Cooper have announced the keynote speaker for the second annual First Pitch banquet.
	www.wsuraiders.com /baseball (531 words)

	USATODAY.com - Oracle chief reportedly mulling NFL team purchase
		The league has said it intends to choose a location by next spring in hopes of bringing a team back to the area for the 2008 season, the paper said.
		Ellison, a billionaire co-founder of the world's second biggest software company after Microsoft, met recently with senior NFL executives and expressed interest in owning a team in Los Angeles, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.
		Ellison has established a penchant outside Silicon Valley for fast cars and fighter jets, and for his quest to help the United States win the America's Cup, sailing's top prize.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2004-10-15-ellison-nfl-team_x.htm (342 words)

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		On Sunday, MLB and its fledgling counterpart, the China Baseball Association, announced they would formally team up to promote baseball in every corner of the communist nation ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
		Frankly, baseball was the only thing I missed about the States in the year-and-a-half we've been in China.
		About five dozen Chinese universities have varsity teams, and the four-team China Baseball Association -- the Beijing Tigers, the Tianjin Lions, the Shanghai Eagles and the Guangdong Leopards -- is trying to draw bigger crowds with local sponsorships and outreaches to children.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5412608&postID=106966750793542313 (724 words)

	Baseball player selected for China trip after earning All-American honors
		The U.S. and China are participating in an eight-year, home-and-home series leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
		CARNEYS POINT TWP., N.J.—Quenten Rouse, the leader of the Salem Community College baseball team in 2004, was on a major road trip this summer.
		I think the SCC baseball program will see the benefit of Rouse's work pay off in the years to come as he has helped lay the foundation for what Salem baseball and its student athletes will hopefully become year-in and year-out."
	www.salemcc.edu /scc-today/news/2004/august2004/08-11-2004.htm (366 words)

	Boston.com / News / Odds & ends / Mythical Monkey King steps up to bat for baseball
		China's mythical Monkey King will swing his magical staff for baseball next month in a bid to help a fledgling league take root in a country besotted with soccer and basketball.
		One of the league's goals is to groom enough domestic talent to give China's national team a shot at qualifying for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
		BEIJING (Reuters) - China's mythical Monkey King will swing his magical staff for baseball next month in a bid to help a fledgling league take root in a country besotted with soccer and basketball.
	www.boston.com /news/odd/articles/2004/03/24/mythical_monkey_king_steps_up_to_bat_for_baseball (212 words)

	- Review
		In 2002, a panel appointed by Rogge proposed that the three sports be dropped because of lack of global popularity, high venue costs and, in the case of baseball, the absence of top major league players.
		Soccer and cycling are the only summer sports yet to sign the code, which sets out uniform drug-testing rules and sanctions, but have promised to do so before the Athens Games in August.
		The last sport dropped from the Summer Olympics was polo in 1936.
	apexsportsbook.com /nfc.php?ID=184&TIT=No+Sports+...+2008+Beijing+Games (212 words)

	Eastern League Baseball
		The extension of the agreement means that the New York organization will continue to provide minor league players to the B-Mets through the 2008 season.
		Prior to their opening day game against the Erie SeaWolves, the Harrisburg Senators and their Major League affiliate, the Washington Nationals, announced that they are extending their Player Development Contract four more seasons.
		The agreement, which was originally going expire at the end of this season will now extend through the 2010 season.
	www.easternleague.com (294 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com
		At an International Olympic Committee meeting in 2002, baseball, its sister sport softball and modern pentathlon narrowly avoided exclusion from Beijing 2008 but their future at the games is open to debate.
		The basic agreement was reached by top professional baseball executives from the three superpowers in the sport at a hotel here, an official of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) organisation said.
		He added that the Tokyo meeting was attended by NPB commissioner Yasuchika Negoro, US Major League Baseball (MLB) chief operating officer Bob DuPay and Korean Baseball Organization commissioner Park Yong-Oh.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_sports/view/115665/1/.html (649 words)

	Baseball tries to hit home run in China - World News - MSNBC.com
		In anticipation of greater media exposure, next year the China Baseball League will be the first Chinese athletic league to proffer players a course that grooms their public relations and financial skills.
		And with his help, China hopes to impress the world with a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in America’s favorite pastime, once banned by Mao Zedong as cultural pollution.
		Where Chinese spectators call baseball confusing, McCarthy pitches it to middle-class Chinese families as “the most intellectual sport.” And to appear more international, each team’s home uniforms have their names stitched in English rather than Chinese.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5600835 (1351 words)

	Muzi.com LatelineNews : Baseball-China big league or one-hit wonder?
		He said he was encouraged by the Ministry of Education's support for spreading baseball at the elementary and middle school levels and the CBA's proclaimed determination to win a medal in the event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
		Communist China was well outside the U.S. sphere of influence in the golden years of baseball, when other Asian countries Taiwan, Japan and South Korea began their love affair with the sport.
		Young Chinese baseball players in the stands said they were drawn by the cerebral side of the game.
	news.beststar.com /ll/english/1215713.shtml (1104 words)

	LVLG: Brett's Vegas Views - Sheryl Crow, Howard Hughes, Kenny G, Stve Wyrick, San Gennero, Dale Chihuly, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Bennett, Alan Parsons, Wild Buck. - Las Vegas Entertainment and Travel Weekly
		For the first time, Las Vegas has been selected as the host city for the 2008 Baseball Winter Meetings, which attracts approximately 4,000 individuals, including top minor league and major league executives, and representatives from companies exhibiting at the Meeting's Baseball Trade Show, the largest baseball related trade show in the world.
		George Kuo, Martin Pahinui and Aaron Mahi are leading exponents of ki ho'alu or slack key guitar, the unique finger style developed by 19th century Hawaiian cowboys, in which the strings (keys) are lowered (slacked) to non-standard tunings, producing a lingering sound and characteristic resonance behind the melody.
		He has produced eight No. 1 albums, recorded the best selling instrumental album of all time "Breathless," and sold over 70 million records worldwide, all in his 20-year career.
	www.lasvegas-nv.com /brett/082105.htm (1840 words)

	NY Sports Day - Our catcher in 2008
		NY Sports Day - Our catcher in 2008
		NY Sports Day is an independent sports website that is not affiliated with any other news organization.
		Didn't Bobby V say that one well known player was on the juice while he was managing here, and the front office told him to mind his own business about it?
	www.mofosports.net /themofo/showthread.php?p=317420 (1840 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - IOC moves to delay vote on reducing sports until 2005
		Three months after an Olympic panel proposed dropping the three sports for the 2008 Beijing Games, the IOC decided Friday to put off any vote until after the 2004 Athens Games.
		Baseball federation chief Aldo Notari of Italy noted that he had proposed reducing the Olympic tournament from 11 days to five days, a move which would improve the chances of major-leaguers taking part.
		The last sport dropped from the Summer Olympics was polo in 1936, and IOC members made clear they had no desire for radical change now.
	espn.go.com /oly/news/2002/1129/1468645.html (1840 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
		The Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta came to a close Sunday night, after two weeks of athletic competition between 197 countries and over 11,000 athletes -- the most ever in an Olympic Games.
		The move could bring the Summer Olympics back to U.S. soil for the third time in 24 years.
		U.S. Olympic officials will vote next month on whether to enter a bid for the 2008 Olympic Games.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/summer96.htm (1840 words)

	Major League Baseball : News
		The IOC is threatening to banish baseball as a medal sport long before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Bejing, China, if MLB doesn't begin to at least phase in some Major League players.
		It will be the first time since baseball was introduced as a demonstration sport at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that the U.S. will not be represented with a baseball team.
		For the last two Winter Olympics, the National Hockey League has taken a break in its season to allow its best players to represent their national teams, creating an Olympic hockey tournament that is both balanced and highly competitive.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20031201&content_id=610301&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (1840 words)

	USATODAY.com - USATODAY.com - Olympic sports coverage
		The International Olympic Committee's executive board will discuss Thursday whether to add women's boxing to the Summer Games, possibly by the 2008 Beijing Games.
		PARIS — International Olympic Committee member Guy Drut was given a 15-month suspended sentence and fined $60,000 Wednesday in a corruption and party-financing trial, raising the possibility of sanctions from the Olympic body.
		Also approved were increases in women's teams in soccer, field hockey and handball, and the use of team events in table tennis.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/front.htm (503 words)

	#57 Randy Jones, Second Base, 36 yrs, San Diego Padres - Out of the Park Baseball Report
		Drafted in 2nd round, 43rd overall pick, by Pittsburgh in 2008...
		Out of the Park Developments - The place for baseball and boxing simulation games
		#57 Randy Jones, Second Base, 36 yrs, San Diego Padres- Out of the Park Baseball Report
	www.ngbl.net /stats/p1401.html (270 words)

	2001
		July 14 - The International Olympic Committee votes for Beijing to be the host of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
		November 16 - The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is released, grossing US $975.8 million, becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time, behind Titanic.
		Best Supporting Actress and Actor were won by Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock and Benicio del Toro for their roles in Traffic which also won its director, Steven Soderbergh, the Directing statue.
	www.wikiverse.org /2001 (270 words)

	#58 David Bell, First Base, 36 yrs, Toronto Blue Jays - Out of the Park Baseball Report
		Out of the Park Developments - The place for baseball and boxing simulation games
		Traded from Kansas City to Florida on 4/1/2001 (Going to FLO: C Brad Ausmus, 3B Tom Evans, 3B David Bell, P Geraldo Guzman.
		Signed as a free agent by Toronto on 2/21/2008 to a 2-year deal worth $608,000 per year...
	www.cooperstowndiamondlegends.com /files/p228.html (178 words)

	United States Presidential Election of 2008 - Uncyclopedia
		To see which new states kept and lost points, the students from each of the new states on the Electoral College's basketball, baseball, air hockey, and football teams competed against each other to see who gains and loses points.
		Since New Mexico was removed from the nation, the United States lost 4 points.
		New York and Louisiana were sunk, removing 40 points.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Election_of_2008 (533 words)

	Virtual Library of Useful URLs - 780-799 Arts & Recreation
		Athens 2004, Turin 2006, Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 from Around the Rings.
		The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses.
		Contents include: Ancient Olympic Events, Take a Tour of Ancient Olympia (3 versions: tour with pictures, tour with Quick Time movies, and soon tour with Shockwave will be available), Context of the Games and the Olympic Spirit, plus Stories from Ancient Olympic Athletes.
	www.aresearchguide.com /780-799.html (533 words)

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