Thursday, May 06, 2004

BASEBALL STEPS ON AND SQUASHES "SPIDER-MAN" BASES

I don't know if it was my little diatribe that formerly appeared here, or if it was the thousands of other purists who also consider the three baseball bases sacred territory, but Major League Baseball has had a change of heart and has decided not to go ahead with the emblazoning of a "Spider-Man 2" movie logo on the bases during the weekend the film is to open.

Among those who chimed in were former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, who shuddered to think of what his predecessor, the late A. Bartlett Giamatti, would have thought of the whole thing. One New York baseball writer did a broadcast interview in which he surmised, "What's next? Putting the umpires in Spidey suits?"

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