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Yanks to hold ceremony from space

Posted April 16, 2008 5:05 PM

From MSNBC.com: Space:

The ceremonial first pitch in Wednesday's Major League Baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox will be thrown from aboard the international space station, the Yankees announced. U.S. astronaut Garrett Reisman, a lifelong Yankees fan, will throw the ball aboard the space station with video of the event beamed to a giant screen inside the stadium, where the Yankees will play their arch rivals. Reisman took some dirt from the Yankee Stadium pitcher's mound, a Yankees hat and a banner with him to the space station, which is orbiting about 220 miles above the Earth.

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Re: Yanks to hold ceremony from space

04/17/2008 1:59 AM

That dirt lifted to the Space Station, will be the most expensive soil from this Planet.

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