Wood Bat League
BY JOSHUA GALVIN INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Ben Sheets? Cliff Lee? The starter everyone is asking about since the night of Major League Baseball's All- Start Game was not in New York or even the continental United States last Tuesday. The name on the tip of everyone's tongue is Blacksheep hurler Nate Barber.
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Adjusting the sails
BY PETER LYNCH INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Winning the America's Cup might be a far off dream for some of the Great Harbor Yacht Club adult sailing students, but placing in the upcoming weekly Saturday races certainly is not.
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
The Harrier and the Prince
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      The title deals with names for things. It could have been titled, "The Northern Harrier Formerly Known as the Marsh Hawk." This was the first phrase in an article by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation describing this species. It made me think of "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince," who subsequently became known simply as TAFKAP.
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Them's the Breaks
      The '80s, in addition to being the decade marked by insane greed and accumulation of stuff, was a relatively tough time for yours truly.
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