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Within "The Times They Were A-Changin': Baseball in the Age of Aquarius Age of Aquarius
n.
An astrological era held to have brought to the world increased spirituality and harmony among people.
," an exhibit at the Burbank Central Library, forget about finding your standard bats and balls.

The collection of artifacts artifacts

see specimen artifacts.
, artworks, photographs and historical text, which will be on display through Oct. 29, focuses on facts and artifacts from left field.

On display, for example, is the Chic model hair dryer owned by ex-Yankee Joe Pepitone
    Joseph (Joe) Anthony Pepitone (born October 9 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder for the New York Yankees (1962-1969), Houston Astros (1970), Chicago Cubs (1970-1973) and Atlanta Braves (1973).
    , who is credited with introducing the gizmos to clubhouses in the 1960s. There's also an orange baseball that former A's owner Charlie Finley wanted to use for night games so players could see it better. Scans of some of the original notes penned by former pitcher Jim Bouton bouton /bou·ton/ (boo-tahn´) [Fr.] a buttonlike swelling on an axon where it has a synapse with another neuron.

    synaptic bouton  b. terminal.
     for his tell-all book, "Ball Four," and souvenirs promoting the Houston Astrodome as·tro·dome  
    n.
    A transparent dome on the top of an aircraft, through which celestial observations are made for navigation.

    Noun 1.
     are also in of the exhibit.

    The 50-piece collection is sponsored by the Baseball Reliquary, a Pasadena organization dedicated to promoting baseball' s lighter side and its place in American culture.

    "I was confined to three large display cases and I could have filled a museum with this stuff," said Terry Cannon, executive director of the organization.
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    Title Annotation:The LABJ's L.A. Stories
    Author:Greenberg, David
    Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
    Article Type:Brief Article
    Geographic Code:1USA
    Date:Oct 11, 2004
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