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07/17/07
Like Cal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games or Wayne Gretzy's 92-goal season, sailor Carleton Mitchell's three consecutive Bermuda Cups stand as an unassailable sports record. 
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Mr. Mitchell, who lived and sailed in Annapolis for many years, died in Miami yesterday. He was 96.
"Carleton was a giant in our sport," said Gary Jobson, an Annapolis sailing journalist. "He was a longtime journalist and did quite a bit for sailing." Of the 46 Bermuda Cup races in the past century, only Mr. Mitchell walked away with three trophies, all consecutively in 1956, 1958 and 1960. The 635-mile race through challenging Atlantic waters begins in...
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