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When they opened up the new ballpark in San Francisco, they had a team of Portuguese Water Dogs that were trained to fetch the balls that went over the wall and into the cove. If I remember correctly, Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci) may have been one of the owners. They got a lot of coverage on local TV news. Once the season got underway, though, so many people brought inflatables, canoes, kayaks and other small boats to the cove that the dogs never got to do their thing.