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Late Bloomers: Matt Stairs

Late Bloomers: Matt Stairs

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Paul White
Apr 11, 2024
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It sounds like a Disney movie.

A short, stocky, balding, hockey player from New Brunswick decides he would be better at baseball and ends up setting a major league home run record. He marries a girl from his hometown, they have three daughters, and he retires back to New Brunswick where he gets his dream job of coaching hockey at his old high school.

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