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The Time Carl Pund Won The YoYo Championship, But Lost The Prize

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Gil Sandler

Published July 25, 2014 at 7:30 AM EDT

Carl Pund, a young boy from West Baltimore, entered the Baltimore City yo-yo contest in 1964. The winner was to be awarded a trip to Disneyland. Carl won the championship, but he didn't win the trip. A story of a winner's luck gone bad...

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