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It is probably time to let the baseball coach retire0
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- August 3, 2021
Jeff LeProwse has been trying to retire as the head coach of the Butte Miners for a few years now. He even advertised the job opening so anybody in the world could apply. Every year, though, the only suitable candidate to replace LeProwse has turned out to be LeProwse. So, each year when April rolls
READ MOREGetting back on the bike is easier said than done1
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- July 27, 2021
Evel Knievel crushed his pelvis and femur when he crashed while attempting to jump the fountains at Caesars Palace in 1967. He also suffered fractures to his hip wrist and both ankles. The legendary Butte daredevil again broke his pelvis when crashing in an attempt to jump 13 buses at Wembley Stadium in London in
READ MORETommyknockers provide best bargain in town0
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- July 13, 2021
If you go to a Mining City Tommyknockers baseball game, and I highly recommend that you do, do not buy the popcorn. A bag of popcorn at 3 Legends Stadium cost $3, and it is tiny. I mean really small. You will be terribly disappointed. The popcorn bags are as small as the ones you
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Jay Bickford always had us feeling like kids4
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- July 6, 2021
The greatest competition that was never written about occurred in 2001. To be more specific, it started at about 2:01 a.m. on June 4, 2001 on Main Street in Butte, just outside Maloney’s Bar. I cannot remember if Jay Bickford threw the first snowball, but he was definitely the one who made the fight a
READ MOREButte should jump on Pioneer League expansion0
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- June 29, 2021
At least 47 percent of my fondest childhood memories involved, in some way, the Butte Copper Kings. Whether it was mispronouncing Cecil Fielder’s name as we chanted “See-sill, See-sill” every time the big fella came to the plate in 1982, laughing at the crowd during Quarter Beer Night, or just watching real-life professional baseball, the
READ MOREMontana Shrine Game restores faith in humanity0
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- June 22, 2021
Nobody will dispute that 2020 will go down as the worst year of the century. That has nothing to do with the Lakers and Dodgers winning titles in the same calendar year, either. Well, it has a little to do with that, but it the dumpster fire that was 2020 goes well beyond the NBA
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