Pricing The Kids Out


	Pricing The Kids Out

ALEX51

10-17-2009 10:02 AM

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ALEX51 says:

Thank you Bob Herbert for saying what so many of us have been saying about the exorbitant cost of attending a ballgame in one of the new stadiums.

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