Cape Cod

•Kevin McHale, Boston Celtics forward, on the joys of Cape Cod: "You can even go on a whale watch. Personally, though, I saw enough of Bill Laimbeer during the playoffs."

I first had the idea, crazy as it was, when our local supermarket added a specialty section that included a water tank filled with lobsters. Poor little devils, crawling about in the murky water, their claws fastened...

In other places, baseball fields are diamonds. On Cape Cod, they look more like oyster shells. There's something just short of wonderful about Cape Cod baseball, but then—if we are to believe Henry David Thoreau...

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