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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:49:39 -0600
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- From: Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (73)
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- 9) Eddie Matthews: He was a baseball player in the late fifties and
- sixties for the Detroit Tigers. As a teenager I thought he was <so>
- good looking, and he was a good player also.
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- Dizzy Dean's "Wabash Cannonball": Dizzy Dean was a baseball player turned
- sports announcer who narrated many major leage ball games. He was a
- southerner and spoke like a "hick." When nothing exciting was happening
- in a game he would burst into song, and "Wabash Cannonball" (about a
- train) was one of the songs he sang frequently.
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- Stephan, feel free to add to or correct the above. :-)
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- doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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