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Melons a bust, mascot malfunctions

By Jim Bailey

Posted: February 19, 2013 at 2:53 a.m.

Some 12 to 15 years ago, as Arkansas Travelers General Manager Bill Valentine was preparing for a midsummer Ray Winder Field doubleheader, a farmer (who happened to be one of Valentine’s acquaintances ) drove up with a truck loaded with watermelons.

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