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THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL MORE GLORY DAYS AT THE BALLPARK.


Byline: TOM HOFFARTH

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 a way to boost ballpark attendance this summer. Keep ``The Boss'' in the bullpen.

Tickets for Bruce Springsteen's Aug. 17 concert at Dodger Stadium     [  go on sale this morning at 10 a.m., with prices from $35 to $75 a pop. Unlike a Dodgers game, there's an eight-ticket limit.

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 - and opening up Staples Center a few years back - it's about time It's About Time may refer to:

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  • It's About Time (musical), a 1951 Broadway production.
 Springsteen cruised into Chavez Ravine, which since its opening 42 years ago has had the Beatles, Elton John, Michael Jackson, The Bee Gees, David Bowie, Simon and Garfunkel The duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are American popular musicians known collectively as Simon and Garfunkel. They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland (Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as the , KISS, Genesis, Eric Clapton, U2, the Rolling Stones, plus The Three Tenors.

The night before L.A., Springsteen and the E-Street Band show up at Pac Bell Park in San Francisco. Leading to that, they're booked at Pittsburgh's PNC Park and Chicago's formerly known as the New Comiskey Park. In September, it's on to a weekend at Boston's Fenway Park, then to Detroit's Comercia Park and Milwaukee's Miller Park, where the tour is all supposed to come to an end.

So now you know Bud Selig has something to do with this.

Since Springsteen's worldwide tour to continue promoting ``The Rising'' started a year ago, he's sold almost 3 million tickets. More than a million have come from this summer's stadium stops, which have also included a few football venues in Denver, Buffalo, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and, in his home state of New Jersey, Giants Stadium.

We're hopin' those sitting back at Dodger Stadium on that Sunday summer eve won't have to hear the lyrics: ``It's a town full of losers, and I'm pullin' out out of here to win.'' ...

--Anyone got a copy of ``Take Me Out To The Ballgame'' by Bruce Springstone? ...

--Little known fact: Springsteen was enshrined into the Little League Hall of Excellence in '97, in part for his participating in the Freehold, N.J., Little League back when they could get a speedball speed·ball
n.
An intravenous dose of cocaine mixed with heroin or an amphetamine.
 by him.

Same honor went to Tom Selleck (in '91), who played in the Sherman Oaks Little League, and Kevin Costner (in 2000) for his days in the Saticoy Little League of Ventura. ...

--Honestly can't blame Jim Tracy for not wearing glasses anymore. The ones he had were much too rose-colored. ...

--Why don't they call what Eric Gagne does a walk-off save? ...

--Avoid the Filet o' Ferdinand next time you're in Tokyo. ...

--Santa Anita, which doesn't have any live racing until the Oak Tree meeting starts Sept. 28, figures it can benefit from ``Seabiscuit'' mania by offering free tram tours on the weekends at the facilities where the little horse who could used to frolic Frolic - A Prolog system in Common Lisp.

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. Most of the stuff looks the same as it did more than 60 years ago - except for the nearby shopping mall, of course. For more info: (626) 574-6677. ...

--Thanks for the Tylenol tip, Stu Scott. We'll use it next time you're on the air. ...

--Anyone rollin' into Ottawa in 2007 ought to know Quebec City has won the right to hold the tumbling and trampoline trampoline

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 world championships, which serve as the qualifying event for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. ...

--Next biopic bi·o·pic  
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biopic
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Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)]
 we'd pick to see: The Eric Crouch Story. ...

--Have you heard the prosecutors in the Kobe Bryant case say they have a ``slam-dunk case?'' ...

--No need to issue a gag order A court order to gag or bind an unruly defendant or remove her or him from the courtroom in order to prevent further interruptions in a trial. In a trial with a great deal of notoriety, a court order directed to attorneys and witnesses not to discuss the case with the media—such . We've been gagging all along on the info that's purported to be news. ...

--My new tax guy insists Vanessa Bryant doesn't have to include the new $4 million bling-bling in the list of equally divided common assets when the divorce papers are filed.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jul 28, 2003
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