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| | Northpinellas: For players, baseball crosses barriers |
 | | It was high fives all around as the Oldsmar Thunder, in yellow, and the Russian Svyatogor, in red, congratulate each other after an exhibition game at Canal Park. |
 | | Thirteen years after the Berlin Wall was demolished and the Cold War ended, two youth baseball teams, American and Russian, came together for an impromptu game of friendship. |
 | | The Svyatogor team's Roman Solomko, 8, tries to catch the ball as Oldsmar Thunder's Zach Welsh, 10, slides into second. |
| www.sptimes.com /2002/12/05/NorthPinellas/For_players__baseball.shtml (629 words) |
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