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Old 12-28-2013, 01:03 AM   #242
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1898 Baseball League Season Starts To-Day

The baseball season begins according to the rules of the Baseball League; the season will start earlier in the year, to-day, the 16th of May. The earlier starts is because of the lengthened season, now 102 games, and that is because of the additional two teams for each Division, up to eighteen now apiece.

The popularity of baseball is spreading apace in Britain. Despite the generally miserable weather we suffer at a moment’s notice, when a sunny seventy-five degree day can turn to dreary fifty-five in a seeming instant, we still love spending our summer days outdoors, in the light, watching our idols such as Sharp and Clark, Turner and Parker, weave their magic and entrance us in their spells. O, for summer right now!

But, tho’ the summery weather not be so near, the games are nigh, and we rejoice in their return!

Watch for the First Division to be contested most vigorously among the best of the recent past, including current champion Sunderland, three-time erstwhile champion Blackburn, a strengthened Bolton and a resurgent Burnley. In the lower level, you can expect strong efforts from Doncaster, Walsall and, most excitingly, Liverpool to challenge for the top flight spots likely to be vacated by the likes of Grimsby, Wolverhampton and Nottingham Forest.
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