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World Cup could be delayed

By Alan Schwarz
Baseball America

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

NEW YORK -- For the past 12 months, as news of baseball's pursuing a World Cup-style tournament for next spring has grown stronger and stronger, most onlookers have considered the event a virtual fait accompli, as if it boiled down only to selecting the rosters and screaming, "Play Ball!" But for the parties involved, it has always been far more complicated. So complicated, in fact, that there is significant and growing concern the plans will have to be pushed back to 2006. Major League Basebal ...

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