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Article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Article date: June 27, 2008 Author: Lewis, Mike

Byline: MIKE LEWIS P-I reporter

John Bayliss isn't, at first glance, the pioneering sort.

As a young man - in Spain, Greece and Germany through the 1980s - the Englishman gravitated to work in bars. But at the end of his globetrotting, he found himself in Seattle in the early 1990s and noticed a curious thing: the town's lousy ratio of beer (plenty) to televised soccer (none).

So just like that, Bayliss joined the ranks of Hudson, Drake and other courageous English explorers who charged into the unknown and braved ...

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