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Baseball Remembers: Udell Chambers, and What Memorial Day Is About

Baseball Remembers: Udell Chambers, and What Memorial Day Is About

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May 27, 2024
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Udell Chambers was a really good ballplayer.

He wasn’t big, only 5’ 8” and 150 pounds, but he was so good that one of his brothers said the kids around their neighborhood in Kirkwood, Missouri, outside of St. Louis, would all stop what they were doing to come watch him play on game days. Once he got to Kirkwood High School he starred in both basketball a…

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