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Officially, two teams will be crowned the baseball champions of the state of Hawaii next week. Unofficially, the holder of the Cartwright Cup goes to the survivors of a state of anarchy. Beginning next Thursday at Hans L’Orange Park, the 65th edition of the Wally Yonamine State Baseball Tournament will begin.
The tournaments began before statehood but took two years off during the pandemic. ...
Officially, two teams will be crowned the baseball champions of the state of Hawaii next week. Unofficially, the holder of the Cartwright Cup goes to the survivors of a state of anarchy. Beginning next Thursday at Hans L’Orange Park, the 65th edition of the Wally Yonamine State Baseball Tournament will begin.
The tournaments began before statehood but took two years off during the pandemic. There have been 66 champions crowned, with Baldwin and Maui sharing the title two years ago because there was water falling from the sky. This isn’t swimming, where schools hit the pool ready to bow down to the Buffanblu.
It isn’t football, where neighbor island schools are not invited to compete for the biggest prize. This is baseball, a genteel sport between the lines but chaotic outside of them, with an unseeded group winning as often as the top seed does. Star power means less than you think it would.
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