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Word: peafowl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Athletics Owner Charles O. ("Call Me Charlie") Finley invoked his own brand of voodoo be fore his club took on the Detroit Tigers. Finley 1) rode around the bases on the back of a mule called Charlie O, 2) took possession of five monkeys, a doe, rabbits, pheasants and peafowl donated by admiring fans, and 3) produced a beauty queen to act as bat girl. The Athletics lost anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Wait Till Next Year | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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