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With Opening Day near, we savor the delights, simple and strange, that spice up the national pastime

1. Life's a BeachThe awarding of the NFL's 32nd franchise to Houston ensures that Los Angeles, the country's second-largest television market, will be without a team for the foreseeable future.

1Nine-millimeter slug that a CAT scan showed in the skull of welterweight Charles Young, who had applied for a license to fight in Atlantic City.