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    A shooting and the risks of political outrage

    by Michael Scherer Jun 17, 2017 2 minutes
    Five people, including Representative Steve Scalise, were injured during the Alexandria, Va., shooting

    CONGRESSIONAL BASEBALL IS A quaint throwback of a sport, not just for the aging players who take the field but for the country they have been elected to represent. It is anchored in the unfashionable idea that political leaders serve a single American public, one united more by its pastimes than divided by its politics. Democrats and Republicans play for the fun of it.

    Since the first pitch in 1909,

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