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Dodgers cancel ticket hike

A website showing higher prices for single-game tickets went live in error, says the team. Now the prices will be the same as last season. "There had been an anticipated increase," Dodgers spokesman Charles Steinberg told Bill Shaikin in the Times. "Everything has changed [with the economy] over the past four months." Meanwhile, the only news on the Manny Ramirez front is that Frank McCourt wants a "quiet period" until after the Dodgers finish celebrating their new spring training home in Arizona this weekend. Sounds like they'll all talk again after that. LAT, MLB, DN

On the dying newspaper beat: Longtime baseball writer Tracy Ringolsby checks out of Arizona early now that his paper, the Rocky Mountain News, has folded.


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