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Hall Of Fame Of Coolness

by Rob Neyer

I nominate R. A. Dickey:

↵↵I think I know now how Bilbo Baggins must have felt in Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.” My companions and I have set out on our own mountainous journey to try to attain a treasure.

↵The treasure in our case is not a pile of gold guarded by a dragon, but rather the gratification that comes with reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

↵↵That’s just the beginning of Dickey’s status report, via The New York Times.

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