The Kelowna Heat, a Canadian teenage girls' softball team, had everything it needed to play at a tournament in Spokane, Washington--everything except government-issued photo IDS. (Brickbats).
The Kelowna Heat The Kelowna Heat were a minor league baseball team located in Kelowna, British Columbia. The team played in the short-lived Canadian Baseball League and was not affiliated with any Major League Baseball team. , a Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. teenage girls' softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team, had everything it needed to play at a tournament in Spokane, Washington--everything except government-issued photo IDS. When U.S. border officials found the team had only school photo IDS and social insurance cards, the border guards took no chances and he potential terrorists packing
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