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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

marked50

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3. Brought back an old memory of the use of sheep for something you wouldn't really think of.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jul 25, 2023, 04:56 PM

Jul 2023

Back in the old times, when the now Oakland Athletics were the Kansas City Athletics the owner at the time, Charlie Finley, had a great idea.

They used to play in the KC Municipal Stadium and the over-the-right field wall was a very steep slope of a side of hill. It was topped by a fence I believe. What Finley did was plant it in grass and since it was really too steep for any kind of mower, he had sheep grazing on it. Complete with a decked our old time Shepherd.

Sometimes it was more exciting to watch that activity than anything on the field.

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