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It had been a long time since former Atlanta Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone had thought about a particular Texas League baseball game from almost fifty years ago, when he took the mound for the visiting Amarillo Giants against the Midland Cubs.Mazzone told me that when he heard I wanted to ask him about that night, he immediately broke into laughter. “For about half an hour.” That’s because on Sunday, August 6, 1972, Cubs Stadium in Midland became the site of one of the most bizarre reasons to postpone a game in pro baseball history.Grasshoppers. Millions of them, according to eyewitnesses. When the swarm arrived, frazzled umpires suspended the contest, the nightcap of a doubleheader, in the bottom of the first inning. The events were…

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