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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1981
Page
7
The author denounces major league baseball, calling it our National Excuse and praising a return to simple, amateur play. He mocks players’ conditioning and earnings while lamenting a lengthy strike that has caused hundreds of games to be missed. Open stadiums, let fans play, and restore the game’s original fun.
Richard Pinney of Cedar Rapids is described as a free lance writer and artist working in wood sculpture and mixed media assemblage. He has held executive roles at Coe College a publishing company WMT-TV a market survey firm and a weekly newspaper.
A northern Iowa forest known as Yellow River offers a stark contrast to developed recreation. The narrator camps at Big Paint and observes neighboring RVs and gear, contrasting slow nature with weekend thrill seekers and ultra‑consumers. The piece ends with a self aware line: I have seen the enemy and it is us.
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