Omaha embraces the CWS

Posted Jun 20, 2006

Out here on the prairie, they delight in calling it "The Greatest Show on Dirt." It's a place and time that the president of a downtown bank might show up for work wearing a T-shirt that proclaims "I Love Baseball!" The College World Series, a marathon event that the citizens of Omaha and those in much of eastern Nebraska literally embrace, may well be college athletics' last fort of genuine innocence. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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