While no dollar amount for the deal was specified, the World Series MVP and avid gaming enthusiast will be responsible for personal appearances, media tours and fan meet-and-greets.

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He happens to be an avid bird-watcher himself, leading tours for the Seattle Audubon Society.

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Even better for a public avid for novelty, Allen Ginsberg turned out to be a character, a bald-headed bearded lump in sandals, never short of a lively opinion and, if there was a photographer around, happy to play the buffoon.

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Built on a hill said to be inhabited continuously for 7, 000 years, it houses a small museum where Gandur, an avid collector of antiquities, studied a collection of ancient Sumerian tablets.

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