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He hit four hundred homers but he&#8217;s still not in the Hall. Jim Frey took K.C. and the Cubs both to division crowns, Elevating teams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=443\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":452,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=452","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May thirtieth","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Turkey\" Donlin played the outfield in the dead ball age. 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