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Thu 07 Jul 2007Nation allagog as Cox homes in on recordAmerica at Large:The moment could come today. It might be tomorrow. Or it might be next week, or even next month. But as sure as the sun rises in the east, a baseball landmark no one believed would ever be reached is bound to be passed soon.No sport ever devised by man places a higher premium on statistical matters than the American National Pastime, and as the nation braces for what promises to be an extended Fourth of July weekend, the eyes of baseball fans everywhere will be glued to their television sets in anticipation of the historic moment.