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The Classic vs. The Frontier

By Ralph Wiley
Page 2 columnist

Tuesday, September 9, 2003

In Americana at its height, baseball is a game of larger-than-life icons. They can be assembled into two essential categories: the Classic and the Frontier. The Eastern media elite is usually biased toward the Classic icon. The Eastern media elite is usually biased against the Frontier icon. The Classic ballplayer is seen as having special, wondrous skills no one else could approach, and as a gregarious, lovable, hail-fellow-well-met, life-of-the-party, come-on-in-and-set-a-spell sort. Wh ...

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