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* found a publicly available newsgroup server (news.aioe.org)

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* downloaded the latest 500 messages (headers only)

* posted a message (listed below, including the header)

From - Sun Jun 24 12:29:26 2007
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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:29:23 +1000
From: Brad Fuller 
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Subject: old pitchers
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I am fairly new to baseball, and there is something that doesn't make 
sense to me. Since pitching is so unavoidably (pre the Mike Marshall 
revolution) damaging to the human body, why are so many of the best 
pitchers 'ancient' in athletic terms, and why do teams pay so much for 
them? I would expect that they would wear out fast.