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Baseball scales back movie promotion

By Darren Rovell
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 6, 2004

Spider-Man will not appear on the base paths after all. One day after hearing the public and media outcry following the announcement of the alliance between the league and Columbia Pictures in conjunction with the summer release of "Spider-Man 2," Major League Baseball officials and Columbia Pictures executives decided to scale back the promotion. "It isn't worth, frankly, having a debate about," commissioner Bud Selig told The Associated Press in Oakland before the Yankees-Athletics game ...

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