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Outraged Taxpayers Not Going Out to Ball Game

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted May 11, 2009 9:23 AM CDT

(Newser) – New Yorkers would like to go out to the ball game, but the Wipons and Steinbrenners “have let their unfettered greed keep the fans at bay,” writes Allen Barra in the Wall Street Journal. Fans are outraged that their tax dollars have gone... Read full story »

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