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Article: San Diego: Super city more ways than XXII
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 29, 1988
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SAN DIEGO San Diego. Gateway to Ensenada. City of the big sailors.
Butcher of infield grounders. Metropolitan area where La Jolla is
pronounced as if a Frenchman were discussing a Georgetown basketball
player. Home of Shamu, who is a whale, not a soccer player. Home of
the America's Cup. Home of Super Bowl XXII. Los Angeles Jr.
San Diego is the city that really is full of ships.
San Diego is the city with the woman from the zoo who brings
ocelots and wombats and marmosets and baby yaks that leave fur balls
and go potty on Johnny Carson's lapels.
San Diego is the city that made its greatest single contribution
to the world of professional sports when a local radio station
hatched a ...