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County Fair Comes to the City

Go super all-American this weekend with a county fair baseball combo

By Lori Preuitt

| Friday, Jun 18, 2010 | Updated 8:37 AM PDT

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We all know that baseball is the all American sport. Carnivals are an all American past time.

This weekend the two will merge at AT&T Park in the City.

For the second year in a row, the parking lot across from McCovey Cove has been transformed into a county fair.

There are more than a dozen rides, midway games, music and food. General admission is free. Rides will cost you $5.

The fair runs through this Sunday.

It has all the trappings of a typical county fair. That includes a sledgehammer challenge to ring a bell, a Ferris wheel and other ways to lose money in hopes of getting that "must have" over-sized stuffed animal.

Last year more than 40,000 people visited the parking transformed into a fairground.

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