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By Morty Ain
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, July 16, 2009

This article appears in the July 27 issue of ESPN The Magazine. We take it for granted Today, but the wide world of sports wasn't always open 24/7. In the days before DVR and post-witching-hour ninth innings, our athletic games were slaves to the inexorable spin of the big and little hands. Full-term completion of doubleheaders and overtimes was contingent not on anything that transpired on fields of play so much as on a single celestial journey. For when the solar system's shining star dipp ...

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