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Wooden Bats Rule in Old School League
By Jim Knowles
The crack of the bat announced that real baseball was in progress down at San Leandro Ballpark last Sunday afternoon.
This is the real thing. They play with Louisville Sluggers, wooden bats, when the San Leandro Old Timers of the Nor Cal Roy Hobbs League take the field.
The league is made up of players 35 and over who don’t settle for the cheap ping of a metal bat making contact. In this league, it’s nothing but the sound of Northern white ash against horsehide. |
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Find the Fireworks and Pie-Eating Contests
By Amy Sylvestri
Happy 4th of July to all of our
readers. Here are a few things
happening in the East Bay over
the Independence Day weekend.
Fireworks at Jack London Square
The annual Fourth of July
fireworks show at Jack London
Square in Oakland begins at 9:15
p.m. over the Oakland estuary.
The fun begins at 7 p.m. with live
big-band music.
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Project in the Works for I-880 Overpasses
By Amy Sylvestri
Get ready to face a construction
zone. Major changes to
Davis Street and I-800 are in the
works.
Projects planned for 2011
will add a lane to I-880, build
new freeway overpasses at Davis
Street and Marina Boulevard, and
widen Davis Street itself.
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Toyota Camry Hybrid Offers Midsize Comforts with Subcompact Mileage
By Steve Schaefer
How good is the mileage
in the Camry
Hybrid? Well, it
got essentially the
same combined mileage — 31.5
mpg — as Toyota’s tiny Yaris
subcompact hatchback. But you
get all the midsized comforts and
features you’d like and an even
smaller carbon footprint.
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Infiniti M Delivers the Goods
By Steve Schaefer
A top the Infiniti
l i n e u p l i v e s
the mighty M.
Available with a
brawny V8 in the M45 or still
strong V6 engine in the M35,
and offering rear-wheel drive
or all-wheel drive, it blends
sporty performance with the
luxury features buyers crave
in a midsize premium car.
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