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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015
PARTING SHOTS
A weekly snapshot from The Daily Astorian and Chinook Observer photographers
The late afternoon sun starts to go down on the Warrenton High School ballfields during a recent softball/baseball doubleheader.
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And now Sue. You are a
writer, and this is a story just
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Photo courtesy Robin Cody
Robin Cody’s soggy scorecard from Oregon State’s per-
fect game March 21. Note at bottom says “excellent bunts
— Dane Lund.”
Photo courtesy of Lund family
Dane Lund catches in the 2003 Little League state tournament.
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but, in Division 1, if you trans-
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— Sue
Robin Cody played baseball
in his hometown of Estacada
and was captain of Yale Uni-
versity’s baseball team. He later
was an umpire in the Portland
area, where he still resides. His
books include “Voyage of a
Summer Sun,” “Ricochet Riv-
er” and “Another Way the River
Has.” Sue Cody is deputy man-
aging editor and sports editor at
The Daily Astorian.
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