Your Field Correspondent, having been trapped in a hellish world of European dial-up connections during the Summer Olympics, has developed a whole new appreciation for your info-but-not-graphics-laden Web site. As such, here are some all-stars from the world of hooking up via AOL on a scratchy Greek phone line: Always one of our favorites, this site for all that is baseball (statistically speaking, anyway), has no video, no photos, no graphics, and none of that other stuff that makes mlb.com, et al., load as slowly and unevenly as a Tim Wakefield knuckleball. You can even surfbaseballreference.com at (gasp!) 9,600 baud on a cell phone while riding in a clunking German bus that has seen way too many trips to Oktoberfest.
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