OFF: Looks like a good reason to celebrate

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In a message dated 1/11/01 3:19:49 PM, tojackso at LIBRARY.SYR.EDU writes:

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celebrate what, the demise of baseball?  hey, when's the anniversary
of the first astroturf game?
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in terms of regular season, the first houston astros home game in '65.
up to that point they had been the 'colt .45s'

but, um, there had been a special exhibition game before that; alas, that was
too many brain cells ago...

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