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KENNEBUNK, Maine -- As long as there have been baseball games, there have been newspapers. As long as there have been newspapers, there have been sports writers. As long as there have been sports writers, there have been copy editors. And as long as there have been sports writers AND copy editors, there have been brush wars. I'd be the first to say that every one of my stories could stand a little tweaking, if not out and out shredding. Especially my ledes (that's newspaper lingo....). So I consider myself fortunate to have won a few more of these battles than I've lost. Yesterday, subbing for the vacationing Kevin Thomas (the outstanding Sea Dogs beat writer for the Portland Press Herald, one of my very best clients), I lost.


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