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Meet the Rangers' newest farm team: The Down East Wood Ducks

By Michael Clair

I'm sorry, but I simply must ask the question: How much wood would a Wood Duck duck if a Wood Duck could duck wood? 
We may get the answer this season as the new Class A Carolina League affiliate of the Rangers, the Down East Wood Ducks of Kinston, N.C., unveiled their logo on Wednesday. I hope you like ducks using branches as baseball bats (who doesn't?) because that's what the Wood Ducks have to offer: 

They won't be the only team in the Carolina League to have some ball-playing water fowl. The Wood Ducks will be competing with the Cubs-affiliated Myrtle Beach Pelicans. 

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