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Old Fri Feb 16, 2007, 09:25am
Scrapper1 Scrapper1 is offline
Lighten up, Francis.
  
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Nobody mentioned it here, but Hank Bauer died a week or so ago. I didn't know that he'd been a Marine. He set a World Series record with a 17-game hitting streak. Pretty amazing player.

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