The Near Miss
By Tommy Chandler
In golf it’s a lip out for the win on the seventy-second hole; in baseball it’s hitting the foul pole in deep left field for strike two, behind by three, bases loaded, only to be followed by a called third strike; in football it’s a field goal to win that hits the upright and bounces away; and in fishing it’s the big one that snapped the line just as it was being hauled in the boat. But, for the 1960 boy’s basketball team at Bladenboro High School it was The Near Miss! At least that’s what I’m going to call it!
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