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09-22-2016, 05:52 PM
The bittersweet ballad of 'Captain Earthman,' the most beloved beer vendor in baseball
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Ever since the Colorado Rockies became a Major League Baseball (http://mashable.com/category/mlb/) team in 1993, fans in the left-field bleachers couldn't miss the beer vendor k**wn as "Captain Earthman."*
** way, ** how. **t with his pin-encrusted cap, his purple-dyed beard, his earrings, his cutoff T-shirts, his tagline — "** sissy sippin'" — and his cell phone with the number he'd give out to regular fans to text him for beers on demand.*
**wadays, though, they sure miss Earthman out there in left field.*
SEE ALSO: MLB star Sean Doolittle perfectly summarizes why white Americans should listen to black activists (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/sean-doolittle-black-lives-matter-national-anthem/)
To Rockies fans he may be Earthman, but to Becky Scharfenberg he's Brent Doeden.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/22/captain-earthman-beer-vendor-rockies-baseball/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Ever since the Colorado Rockies became a Major League Baseball (http://mashable.com/category/mlb/) team in 1993, fans in the left-field bleachers couldn't miss the beer vendor k**wn as "Captain Earthman."*
** way, ** how. **t with his pin-encrusted cap, his purple-dyed beard, his earrings, his cutoff T-shirts, his tagline — "** sissy sippin'" — and his cell phone with the number he'd give out to regular fans to text him for beers on demand.*
**wadays, though, they sure miss Earthman out there in left field.*
SEE ALSO: MLB star Sean Doolittle perfectly summarizes why white Americans should listen to black activists (http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/sean-doolittle-black-lives-matter-national-anthem/)
To Rockies fans he may be Earthman, but to Becky Scharfenberg he's Brent Doeden.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/22/captain-earthman-beer-vendor-rockies-baseball/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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