Word: voltigeur
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...Baseball, said the game's commissioner, countenanced only North American ownership. It is a rather odd America-first policy that counts Canada as an American appendage. Odd too that a sport so bent on maintaining national purity should play in a park where Barry Bonds is announced as the "voltigeur de gauche" and the foul lines are demarcated in meters...
...enough to excite the coolest gérant. Right off Mack Jones, the slugging voltigeur, hit a circuit. A few but sur balles later, he collected his fourth and fifth points produits with his second straight coup sur. But then John Bateman let a faux ballon pop out of his mitaine de receveur and the trouble began. An erreur here, a simple there and Dan McGinn, the ace lanceur de relève, was rushed to the rescue. But by then it was a whole new joute...
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