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Storytime with Doc: Not just America's pastime

March 9, 2022 12:43 PM

W.P. Kinsella wrote "baseball is solid, true, pure, and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple." Doc Emrick contemplates how the sport's current standing impacts, or rather doesn't, baseball around the world.

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