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Baseball at its finest in Omaha

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Friday, June 25, 2004

OMAHA, Neb. -- The Lewis and Clark expedition reached here after 66 days of back-breaking labor -- poling, rowing and dragging a keelboat weighing more than 15 tons through the mud and against the fast current of the Missouri River. They often averaged less than a mile per hour on the river, as they fought mosquitoes, heavy rains, wet clothes, blisters, ulcers and malaria. The slackers. Texas, Cal-State Fullerton, Arizona, Miami, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas and LSU reached Omaha only aft ...

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