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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Weird scraps of stories

 Holke, Walter an adept bird imitator
two milb players mistaken for escaped convicts
1916 "overhand southpaws are rare"
1917 home run made because finger of outfielder stuck in fence in I-I-I
Posted by GTT at 5:14 PM

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