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February 18, 2009 News & Features » Cover Story

The Umpire's New Clothes 

How fuzzy math and a litany of contradictions cloud an ambitious plan to bring baseball to Shockoe Bottom.

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In times of despair, messages of hope can lift the spirit and offer respite from seemingly insolvable problems. Or they can elicit eye-rolling, pugnacious disdain. On any given night, depending on the civic association or community group receiving the message, the…

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