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The pitcher with the unhittable fireball deserves as much credit for breaking baseball’s color barrier as Jackie Robinson

When I was a kid I had a nervy dad, whose dream had been to make it in professional sports, preferably baseball.

In his last time at the plate, Ted Williams crushed a 440-foot home run deep to right field.

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