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Queensland wins the Claxton Shield
2006-01-30 10:39
Yeah, that headline is a grabber isn't. The Queensland Rams won the Claxton Shield, symbol of Australian baseball supremacy with an 8-7 win over the Victorian Aces. (Not that the story tells you that the final score was 8-7, but I tracked it down elsewhere.) You can read more about the competition here and here. Australia, winners of the silver medal in the Olympic tournament in Athens in 2004, will be in Group D of the World Baseball Classic with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Italy. If the Australian baseball story reads strangely to an American crowd, you can compare notes by reading these two accounts of a U.S.-Norway soccer friendly:
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