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New team's nickname riles some in Worcester

By Scott Goldstein
Globe Correspondent / March 11, 2005

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Plans to name a new minor league baseball team in Worcester after a powerful tornado that killed 94 people and injured close to 1,300 in that city a half-century ago are drawing criticism from a historian and survivors of the deadly storm. (Full article: 490 words)

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