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G-20 summit contributes to sparse crowd at PNC Park

Associated Press

Thursday, September 24, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- President Barack Obama's motorcade passed in view of PNC Park in the eighth inning, and military helicopters buzzed over the ballpark all day. Obviously, something big was going on in Pittsburgh. It wasn't the Reds-Pirates game, where a deserted ballpark matched the nearly deserted downtown only a bridge length away. Bronson Arroyo limited Pittsburgh to one run over seven innings and the Cincinnati Reds completed their second sweep of the plummeting Pirates in less than a month, ...

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