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Auction Block: Pricing the Classic

By Eric Angevine

Monday, March 9, 2009

World Baseball Classic. Are any of those words accurate? The one in the middle works: despite the guaranteed presence of the designated hitter and mandatory pitch counts, the game being played is undoubtedly baseball as we know it. We guess World is OK, too, though we're still trying to figure out why China and Chinese Taipei get separate teams, let alone where and what Chinese Taipei is. Classic. Perhaps residents of Japan, where the inaugural WBC trophy is housed, consider their nationa ...

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