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A journey back 'between the hedges'

By John D. Lukacs
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, October 12, 2009

ATHENS, Ga. -- They've been there, stately, iconic and emerald green, for as long as Dan Magill can remember. Long before the renowned Boston ivy began creeping along the red brick walls of Wrigley Field. Even before the brilliant, blooming rainbow of azaleas first arced across Augusta National. Eighty years, to be exact. The date was Oct. 12, 1929, a momentous occasion on which the most famous flora in football, if not all of sports -- the distinctive privet hedges ringing the field at G ...

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