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College softball players bound for Beijing -- with Team Canada

By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once remarked that his nation's main exports were hockey players and cold fronts. Its main imports, according to the iconic and eminently quotable politician, were baseball players and acid rain. Some above the 49th parallel are hoping that adding softball players to the export list will add more Olympic hardware to the incoming traffic. Like every other team of either gender north of the border, the softball team that will represent Canada in th ...

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