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...accurate representation. The clock reads more like 11:59 when we first begin to toss around the cowhide after nearly a year’s worth of lazy inactivity. The team had practiced just a handful of times before heading to play a season-opening doubleheader versus Massasoit, the scourge of the junior circuit. We dropped both games, but the experience could be qualified as a success. No Massasoit hitter went deep, an improvement over last year, when the JuCo team’s cleanup batter christened our season with an impersonation of Carlos Baerga, launching home runs from both...
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Such culinary adaptations started as soon as the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and began trading recipes with the Pamet Indians. When Mayflower Passenger Edward Winslow was asked to aid the ailing big chief, Massasoit, he revived him with some English fruit jam. Perking up, Massasoit is reported to have asked for some "good English pottage," a soup he had already sampled, thus becoming, probably, the first American to order foreign food. Since then, immigrants have been arriving like guests at a covered-dish supper, contributing their specialties to the new communal table. The result is the world's most...
...uneasy encounters between newcomers and natives in the ruburbs have historical precedents going back to Massasoit and the Pilgrims. The Indian chief surely wondered who were these guys in their buckled shoes and pale skins. The wood-stove installer emerging from the package store with a six-pack may also wonder who are these characters in their button-down shirts and patchwork shorts, and what are they doing with the Economist instead of Dirt Rider?ln fact, what the hell are they doing here...