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Decisions, Decisions: Riding Bobby Shantz

Decisions, Decisions: Riding Bobby Shantz

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Jun 27, 2024
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By 1952, the Philadelphia A’s were in trouble.

An American League mainstay, one of the league’s original franchises, for a while they were clearly the best team in baseball. They played in five of the first eleven World Series, winning three of them with a team managed and partly owned by Connie Mack and featuring “The Million Dollar Infield” of Home Ru…

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