Show P ’"I M M The Herald Journal Looan Utah Sunday Counts and bats: It’s Dracula’s game By Al Dunning Scripps Howard News Servioe stoiy goes trio guys from a Romanian village named Alba Inlia decided they didn't want to Someone finally has fiwww a be Romanians any longer So reason why major league dtey came to America where bxsebxU keeps fnghtaving people they joined die US Army and with such scaiy stunts as lockouts toplay and player strikes ac- Evidence has surfaced that to Romanian sourees Dracula invented the game This would explain why vam- was a young US Army officer pire club owners and bloodsuck- named Abner Doubleday He ing major league players keep messed around with the rales a trying to drain the life out of little and in IS39 introduced his fans' wallets game to the American public Dodbieday called it By Jeff Simon aports writer And baseball is just the kind of Dracula would have to kill time between bousecnlls Think about it Why do you think baseball fins to this day ask “What's the pastime invented Count? And that dub that hitters cany to the date Did you ever wonder why it s called a bn? Every baseball team hangs out in a dugout right? Who’s been dug out more times than Dracula? oina-inspirHere's something else I found more than merely coincidental: Dracula hated sunlight Coukte’t At least that! the claim being stand So is it any wonder that ciiculaaed by a Grisdan Cocteacu even (he Chicago Cubs now or the uew Romanian come out mainly at night? 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