The ACCIDENTAL STAR of Baseball in the 1960s and ‘70s
The ACCIDENTAL STAR of Baseball in the 1960s and ‘70s
The ACCIDENTAL STAR of Baseball in the 1960s and ‘70s

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As the story goes, this child, born in El Dorado, Arkansas, into a family of sharecroppers, had to write a book report about baseball as punishment for “spitting on a teacher.” This assignment/ punishment was designed to teach him about life beyond Collinston, Louisiana, where he lived after moving there ...

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