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By Randy Patrick Sports
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Published: Mon, July 21, 2008 - 10:02 pm
Randy Patrick
"I never had no envisions of tearing it down," Aaron said at a ceremony Monday afternoon in Toulminville. "If it stays here, I don't know what would've happened for vandalizing and all the other stuff. We wanted to move it and when the BayBears came along and offered me a chance to do that, I thought it was the greatest idea in the world."
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