Thank the sports gods, baseball season is here at last, and with it comes the first of many editing errors, I'm sure. The New York Mets opened their new ballpark to much fanfare. On Monday night, Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver threw the ceremonial first pitch to Mike Piazza, who should be in the Hall in a few years.
A brief story in The New York Times referred to the big-hitting catcher as "Pizza" in the third paragraph. The error has been cleaned up on the Web site, but it made it into my national edition Tuesday morning. I guess that's an easy one to misplay. The spell-checker won't catch it. That's why I continue to remind my students that spell-checking is NOT editing.
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