This year’s winner of the KOGT Mardi Gras Treasure Hunt, Luke McFarlane, is more of a baseball fan now than he was before the hunt started. The theme this year was a Who am I? Each day’s clue identified a former major league baseball player.
McFarlane followed the first four days of clues which were used to identify Curt Simmons (Simmons Drive), Pumpsie Green (Green Avenue), George Strickland (Strickland Drive), and Billy Martin (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive). Luke admitted his wife helped with the fourth clue on Thursday since he was thinking Martin Street which crosses Strickland in Pinehurst. She suggested MLK which of course has Martin in the name.
Friday’s clue was in reference to the great Ted Williams, but the key words in the clue mentioned Williams leaving baseball to face Reds in Mig Alley were a pain in the neck. This got McFarlane onto Allie Payne Road.
The last line of the clue told how Williams homered in his last at bat which put him on a pipeline to Cooperstown. McFarlane found the orange treasure certificate hidden in a pipe above ground just beyond a low fence off Allie Payne. He wins the $500 prize from the Sabine Federal Credit Union and KOGT.
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