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Originally Posted by Kawika
You can add "starboard garden" aka right field to your list, Scott. Over the years I have perused numerous old articles in the NY Times archives and elsewhere and have encountered many examples of wordsmithing that tickle the eyes. Unfortunately I didn't have the prescience to keep track of them. The old-time sportswriters had it all over the bland crap we read today. Didn't bring my '57 Topps cards to Yankee games to be autographed either back in the day but that's another story. The agony of twenty-twenty hindsight! As an aside the instructional league in the northwest and British Columbia has a new team, the Kamloops Northpaws. I thought that was sorta cool.
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Wow! I visited Kamloops in the 80's while on the hunt for a Trophy King Salmon, never thought I'd see that name pop up in relation to baseball. Go Northpaws!