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Relishing the chance to witness history.(Caught On The Fly)(Brief Article)

The Sporting News

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Baseball fan Michael Mahan has bought all of the pavilion seats for two games during the Dodgers' season-ending series against the Giants, hoping to catch a historic home run hit by Barry Bonds. Mahan is reselling most of the tickets, and those buying them have to sign an eight-page document promising to return any ball hit by Bonds in exchange for a percentage of the profit from selling it (those hit by Michael Tucker, you get to keep). And if that's not weird enough, page 6 of the document states that ticket purchasers also have to give Mahan the first two bites of their Dodger Dogs.

It was a season to flush

Five women's bathrooms at Soldier Field have been converted to men's rooms, the result of a complaint that went like this: A bunch of male fans said they spent way too much time at 2003 ...

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