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So you think your little “sports vacation” of seeing ballgames in six different ballparks during your vacation is unique? You’ve got nothing on this non-ordinary Joe: Joe Connor is home in San Diego after seeing at least one sports event for 675 consecutive days.

Connor, closing in on the age of 50, was at Rio Rancho (N.M.) High School on Dec. 9 to take in a freshman girls basketball game.

“Mondays in December are very hard to find sporting events -- a lot of teams don’t play on Mondays,” he

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