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The tarpon: A tribute

By Curt Gowdy and Pat Smith
Co-host of ESPN2's CITGO In Search of Flywater

Wednesday, June 27, 2001

Hi, this is Curt Gowdy — here to pay my respects to two of the great athletes of all time: the best baseball hitter, Ted Williams, and the most spectacular saltwater gamefish to be caught on a flyrod: the tarpon. More than six decades ago, these two came of age in their respective arenas. “ A flyfisherman will replay a fight with a tarpon over and over in the theater of his mind for years. ” As a third-year left fielder for the Boston Red Sox, the "splendid splinter" w ...

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