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| | Amazon.ca: Fastpitch: Video: Darren Zack,Lila Leiter,Tony Hunhoff,Shane Hunuhunu,Jeremy Spear (II),Ken ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | But as one seasoned spectator notes, "The game is going downhill." Teams are disappearing "one by one, town by town." Fastpitch, Spear observes, "has a purity hard to find in sports today." But that purity is perhaps being threatened by one Peter J. Forcelli Jr., a junk-mail maven and owner of the Tampa Bay Smokers. |
 | | For example, the gross and tacky elements in the character of Peter Porcelli, the financier of the sport's highest paid team, are obvious. |
 | | The economic decline of Midwestern farming communities mirrors the decline in popularity of the game in places such as Ashland, Ohio, from where much of the documentary footage is taken. |
| www.amazon.ca /Fastpitch-Darren-Zack/dp/B00005J77B (804 words) |
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