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Baseball and Politics, Bush and Kerry, Sox and Yankees

NPR's Mike Pesca attended a Major League Baseball game at Boston's Fenway Park Sunday night, when Sen. John Kerry threw out the first pitch of the game to a chorus of both cheers and boos. Pesca compares baseball to politics -- are the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees similar to the two political candidates?

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Mike Pesca first reached the airwaves as a 10-year-old caller to a New York Jets-themed radio show and has since been able to parlay his interests in sports coverage as a National Desk correspondent for NPR based in New York City.
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