A Baseball Prediction For July 21, 2018

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A basic awareness of team sports

in the United States of America

may be necessary to appreciate

 page which has only one

hyperlink

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I am an American male

who prefers team sports

where the player's hands

are not a useless appendage.

I am an American male

who distinctly remembers when

there was no debate

about which team sport

was the National Past Time

  

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July.

It is the day when Summer

is wearing high heel sneakers,

so to speak.

   

As far as American team sports

are concerned, 

Summer is also the time 

when Baseball should have

the field to itself,

so to speak.

Amongst Americans

with a similar sports attitude,

however, their main topic

of discussion

has absolutely nothing to do 

with baseball.

Everybody's talking about

LeBRON JAMES, 

the gazillionth person to move

from Cleveland to Los Angeles

but the most important person

ever to do so.

It is the middle of the baseball season

yet everybody is talking basketball

and the seismic shift of relevance

in the NBA:

The legendary Los Angeles Lakers,

who have worn the crown of mediocrity

for the past five years, are relevant again

despite not playing an official game

for more  than one hundred days

!!!

One last word about

LeBRON JAMES:

he will be worth every penny

the Lakers will be paying him.

But there is still no team

more legendary than

the New York Yankees

and here is where this

long-winded page

presents its prediction

for July 21, 2018

That is when

a New York Yankee

will eclipse Mr. James

on the sports pages.

But it will not be

Sabathia, Stanton, Severino

or Aaron the Judge

or Aaron the Hicks

(from Wilson HS in Long Beach)

It will be a New York Yankee

with the same initials as

Marilyn Monroe

and it will involve a gavel.

What is billed as

The most important trading card

auction of the summer

—which ends on July 20—

is highlighted by

something flavored

with bubble gum.

A sealed pack of baseball cards

—in ultra-mint condition—

where each card

is exactly what you see below

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I predict that this pack

of Mickey Mantle's

1952 rookie card

will sell for

an earth-shattering

amount of money

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Footnotes

A BASEBALL PREDICTION

FOR JULY 21, 2018

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

A gratitudinal reference

is in order for

Art Daily

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