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‘Team not legible’: The story of a mysterious signed baseball plucked from The Fours’ auction

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On a random afternoon in 2013, bartender Ryan McHugh was working a lunch shift at The Fours, when Cam Neely walked in and grabbed a seat. It was the very last seat at the bar, in the back against the wall. A Hall of Famer’s best hope for a quiet, anonymous lunch.

McHugh worked five years at the legendary Boston sports bar, but this was one of his first few weeks on the job. A lifelong Bruins fan, he celebrated Neely’s entire catalogue: as a player, as an executive, as the infamous Sea Bass from Dumb & Dumber.