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S9, E2: THE LONGEST GAME

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The Curfew Is in the Manual

Baseball has a curfew no game shall continue beyond 12 50 in the morning. We've never had to play to a curfew, and now we're right up against it. Jack leetce was the third base umpire, and i called jack over and i said, you know, there's a curfew at 12 50 a m he said, mike, that doesn't mean shut to me, sai. There's no curfew. It's not in i manual. Normally there would be a paragraph, it was a boil plate paragraph talking about curfews. That particular paragraph disappeared from the 19 81 manual when it was being retyped by secretaries. Who knows? It fell

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