CYBERSPORTS OH, THERE'S BEEN A STRIKE DATE SET ALL RIGHT.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth All this strike talk floating around really can get a baseball fan depressed. Especially when it's the fans doing the talking on the Internet. MLB MLB Major League Baseball MLB Minor League Baseball MLB Middle Linebacker (football) MLB Motor Life Boat MLB Matt Leblanc (actor) MLB Mother Love Bone (band) Fan Strike is an organized group that has come together on a Web site (www.mlbfanstrike.com) to show everyone they're upset about the continued threat of stoppage to the game and they're not going to take it anymore. The best way to get everyone's attention - stage a boycott of all games Thursday, the day after Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. resumes following the All-Star break. The way this will go is fans who sign up are supposed to stay away from attending any game, watching any game, listening to any game or even following any game on the Internet. Two other sites, Take Back Baseball (www.takebackbaseball.com) and We The Fans (www.wethefans.com/allstarfanprotest) are backing the blackout. ``If it works, I think it shows the power of the Internet to disseminate information to a large mass of people,'' Don Wadewitz Donald Richard Wadewitz II (born May 20, 1974) is an American sportscaster and media relations director. Education Don was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He attended Dr. Beatrice O. Jones Elementary School, Mitchell Elementary and Middle School and Washington Park High School. , a program coordinator at Marquette University Marquette University at Milwaukee, Wis.; Jesuit; coeducational; chartered 1864, opened 1881. The school achieved university status in 1907. Among its graduate programs are those in business, engineering, and law. who created MLB Fan Strike, told ABCNews.com. --One of the great legacies of Ted Williams, a book he wrote with John Underwood This article is about the early 17th century actor. For the U.S. Representative from Georgia, see John W. H. Underwood. John Underwood (d. October 1624) was an early 17th century actor, a member of the King's Men, the company of William Shakespeare. in 1970 and updated in softcover in 1986 called ``The Science of Hitting,'' can be found at the online gift shop for Williams' Florida-based Hitters Hall of Fame (www.tedwilliamsmuseum.com). (By the way, the store also offers a 14-inch bronze bust of Williams available in limited supply for $900). Williams also is one of 39 inducted into the International Game Fish Association's Hall of Fame (www.igfa.org). Another of his books, ``Fishing the Big Three: Tarpon tarpon (tär`pŏn), common name for members of the family Elopidae, large herringlike game fish of the warm seas of the Western Hemisphere, ranging occasionally from Long Island to Brazil and to the west coast of Africa and entering freshwater , Bonefish bonefish, common name for a fish belonging to either of two species of the family Albulidae. Albula vulpes is widespread in warm, shallow marine waters, and Dixonina nemoptera is found only in the West Indies. , Atlantic Salmon Atlantic salmon Oceanic trout species (Salmo salar), a highly prized game fish. It averages about 12 lbs (5.5 kg) and is marked with round or cross-shaped spots. Found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, it enters streams in the fall to spawn. ,'' also with Underwood (published in 1982), can be found on used-book sites such as the Advanced Book Exchange (www.abe.com) and Alibris.com. Meanwhile, at the official Ted Williams site (tedwilliams.com), a simple tribute has been put up: ``A baseball legend, an American hero, a father and a friend. We love you, Ted Williams.'' --If fans are allowed to play baseball video games, then one offered starting Tuesday on FoxSports.com (www.foxsports.com/games) might hit a sweet spot. ``Hit The Pros'' gives users the feel of hitting a ball off a current big-league pitcher using video of actual pitches from a game. You pick a batter, then a pitcher, and let it rip with the mouse. Of the three ways to play, one is a subscription-based mode ($9.95 per month) in which players go into an online league and compete. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (video game: ``Hit the Pros'') |
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