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I’m not really a baseball fan (of the Big Franchised Sports in the US, it rates down at the bottom in my book — I’d rather watch golf on TV than baseball).  But this map<\/a> was pretty fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not really a baseball fan (of the Big Franchised Sports in the US, it rates down at the bottom in my book — I’d rather watch golf on TV…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128255,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/the-variability-of-baseball-fields.html","url_meta":{"origin":11538,"position":0},"title":"The variability of baseball fields","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Oct-15 5:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"Football fields are ... well, they are football fields: 120 yards (110 m) long and 53.33 yards (48.76 m) wide, with internal markings to strict regulations. 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