Cracker Jack
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There were baseball cards and Cracker Jack prizes and bubble-gum wrappers...and belly-button lint.
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The new standards might make anyone who grew up watching the likes of Steve Carlton and Nolan Ryan choke on their Cracker Jack.
It is too bad, for example, that the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition was passed by, since it inspired the City Beautiful Movement, the creation of multiple museums, and left us with the Ferris Wheel and Cracker Jack.
Even Agatha Swanburne, who had never tasted Cracker Jack in her life, once said, “Better to make the best of a bad situation than to make the worst of a good one.”
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In the seventh inning, fans rise and sing about buying peanuts and Cracker Jack at the ballgame.
From Los Angeles Times
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