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Last Updated: Jun 12 2018 · 7:43 p.m.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) field questions from reporters in front of a Soyuz spacecraft mockup March 31 during the second of two days of final qualification exams. Yurchikhin and Fischer will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Expedition 51. (Rob Navias/NASA)

OPINION: You are not sufficiently awed by the process of shooting a man from Colorado into space

This is going to be Colorado native Col. Jack D. Fischer's first time in space. Please clap.

The Denver Randalls face off against the Omaha Merchants at Sonny Lawson Park in Five Points in the annual bout between rivals. This game has been played twice a year - once in Denver and once in Omaha - since 1953. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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The long-standing Five Points softball tradition you probably never heard of

An enduring rivalry plays out in Five Points' Sonny Lawson Park twice a year and connects the present to Denver's baseball history.