All things must pass . . . one more once

One of the beauties of baseball is the tempo of the game. It's relaxed enough for even the casual observer to realize that, at the ballpark, the game is only, say, one-tenth of the action.

Or something like that.

Here we continue our photo essays from the College World Series at Omaha's old Rosenblatt Stadium, where we're counting down the seasons until the old landmark gives way, in 2011, to a brand-new ballpark downtown.

It's the long goodbye. And here are some snapshots of Year One of that process.

The game: Fresno State vs. North Carolina.

The date: June 22, 2008.

She loves the game. It's in her eyes.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association wants there to be no doubt about what sport is involved in the College World Series. The NCAA is College World Serious about that particular point. It's BASEBALL.

The old park didn't look like this, exactly, when the CWS first came to town in 1950.

Upstairs, downstairs.