English 2 Grammar: Eliminating Wordiness
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Rewrite the sentences below to make them more concise.
Baseball, one of our oldest and most popular outdoor summer sports in terms of total attendance at ball parks and viewing on
television, has the kind of rhythm of play on the field that alternates between times when players passively wait with no
action taking place between the pitches to the batter and then times when they explode into action as the batter hits a pitched
ball to one of the players and the player fields it.
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