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Oil Can in Maine: still in a league of his own
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19960815
Author:Joseph P. Kahn Globe Staff
One in a weekly series about New England's summer people.
BANGOR,Maine -- It was a small Can moment, played out of view of the paying customers. Nothing to do with locker room tantrums and flapping gold chains, curve balls or blackballs. A wily old vet showing the kids a thing or two, that's all. Life in the bushes. Ring Lardner stuff. You know me, Oil.
A Saturday in late July. Rain had washed out practice prior to a game between the Bangor Blue Ox and Rhode Island Tiger Sharks, two teams in the independent Northeast League, where Dennis Ray Boyd, 36, former Boston Red Sox pitcher and ...
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