Sport: Play Ball!

A onetime monarch last week ascended what used to be called his throne. But while it may be shown that the youth of the nation no longer tenders baseball prime allegiance, fathers and grandfathers, uncles and great uncles, and probably lots of older brothers and cousins and perhaps some female relatives, still believe in the diamond as the centre of national sport. They turned out by the thousand in various sections of the country to see the first balls of the year pitched in National and American League parks— to see:

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