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In an issue that featured an appreciation of Dodgertown by Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated was graced by a letter to the editor from none other than Roger Angell of The New Yorker:
Your list of Maine's all-time best sports figures overlooked Shirley Povich, a 17-year-old Bar Harbor caddie who wangled a ticket for himself to a 1923 Giants-Yankees World Series game at the Polo Grounds. The next year, he covered the Fall Classic as a reporter for The Washington Post and in 1926 became the paper's sports editor, at age 20. His "This Morning" column ran six days a week for the next 47 years, winning him international acclaim and a flood of reader mail addressed to Miss Shirley Povich. ...
Stumbling across this letter was like running into a lifelong influence at the mall. Followed by the ode to the home of Vin Scully Way, it was simply a feel-good issue. (Well, except for that whole University of Colorado football ugliness.)
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