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Baseball Games Washed Out By Heavy Rain; Fans Swim Home

As rain fell across the east in record amounts, games of all kinds were cancelled but swimming was more popular than ever.

Fans and other everyday Americans could be seen breaststroking and backstroking along America’s main streets, highways, and byways.

We interviewed a man who was swimming past Yankee Stadium with her attaché case on her back.

“Give up on the game?” we asked.

“Yeah,” he replied, as we drifted by the roof of a taxi. “Decided I might as well put in a day at the office.”

“May we ask you a question?”

“Sure,” he agreed, with the newly discovered cordiality that Readers Digest recently discovered in New York. “That is, if you don’t mind swimming along beside me. If I stop to tread water, my attaché case will be underwater.”

“No problem,” we told him. “What do you think of this style of commuting?”

“It’s all right,” he replied, “except I have to wear a suit, which is getting kind of soggy.”

“Did you ever swim to work before?” we asked.

“No, I usually take the subway but that’s been underwater for a few days. Watch out. You’re drifting close to a bus.”

“Thanks,” we said, and eased around it. “How much farther do you have to go?”

“Oh, about ten blocks. How about you?” he asked, noticing we were having a bit of a time holding the mike above the waterline.

“Thanks for asking. We’ve been swimming around, interviewing commuters since the start of the rush-hour swim.”

“Maybe you better take a break,” he suggested.

“Maybe you’re right,” we replied, drifting against a streetlamp pole. “We’ll be in trouble if the mike slips below the waterline.”

“See ya,” he said, and swam on.

We hung on till we caught our breath and then swam off to write this article.

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