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Baseball was designed to be played on warm summer days.(Brief Article)
During a few wintery days last April, some major league games were postponed due to inclement weather. It's not that games can't be played in the cold. Just ask former Tiger Jack Morris, who is a broadcaster with the Minnesota Twins.
"When I was with the Indians," Morris said, "I pitched the first night game ever at Jacobs Field. I didn't get the opener, but I got the first night game ... it was 17 degrees with snow flurries."
Morris gave up two runs to Seattle in five innings that night and won, but he doesn't recommend that kind of weather to any ballplayer, let alone a pitcher.
"Abner Doubleday did not invent the game to be played in cold weather," he said. "It was a sunny summer day when he decided baseball ...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Walsh, Paul September 11, 2009 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Kimball, Joe April 20, 2001 700+ words
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...and St. Anthony Av. in St. Paul, Tiger Jack Rosenbloom smiled and waved at passersby...that was recently renamed Mr. and Mrs. Tiger Jack Rosenbloom Street "I'm elated about...but to my mom," Nurceal Rosenbloom. Tiger Jack Rosenbloom relocated the store from downtown...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) August 7, 2001 700+ words
...eccentric Twin Cities cultural icon and small businessman. Tiger Jack died Sunday at age 94. With him went a little piece of St...That stretch of Dale Street is now called "Mr. And Mrs. Tiger Jack Street." Newcomers to the area often drove by with puzzled...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) August 7, 2001 700+ words
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