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Allan H. Selig grew up wanting to be another Joe DiMaggio – until the curveball derailed his on-field career.
But from the owner’s box and ultimately the commissioner’s office, the man known as “Bud” became a lifelong friend to the National Pastime – and left an imprint few can match.
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"I used to chew slippery elm - the bark, right off the tree. Come spring the bark would get nice and loose and you could slice it free without any trouble. What I checked was the fiber from inside, and that's what I put on the ball. The ball would break like hell, away from right-handers and in on lefties." – Burleigh Grimes
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In his five-plus decades in the game, Charlie Comiskey found success as a player, manager and owner at the big league level.
Comiskey’s baseball career began as a talented pitcher for amateur ball clubs in Chicago. Despite his father’s objections, Comiskey jumped to a team in Dubuque, Iowa, where arm troubles forced him to switch to first base. Comiskey was one of the original first basemen who did not “hug the line” and played closer to second base to cut off grounders hit toward right field.
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Charles “Kid” Nichols played 15 seasons in the majors and notched 362 victories over that span, which still ranks among the game’s all-time top totals.
Nichols was an immediate success, and after being signed by Boston in 1890 he won 20-or-more games every year for his first 10 seasons, relying almost completely on his fastball throughout his career.
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As a rookie, Dave Bancroft helped bring the Philadelphia Phillies their first National League pennant.
From there, the slick-fielding shortstop known as “Beauty” was well on his way to the Hall of Fame.
Bancroft, who spent 16 big league seasons as a player and led four of his teams to NL pennants, was born April 20, 1891, in Sioux City, Iowa. He soon displayed keen hand-eye coordination that led to a career on the diamond.
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“I wish I had nine players named Al Simmons.” – Connie Mack
Born Aloysius Szymanski in 1902 to Polish immigrants living in Milwaukee, Al Simmons was a slugging left fielder for Connie Mack’s fearsome Philadelphia Athletics squads of the late 1920s and early ’30s.
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Though time couldn’t tell the full effect Addie Joss might have had on the game of baseball, he left a legacy large enough to remember.
With his unconventional corkscrew delivery, he was able to get the ball across the plate before most batters even had a chance at seeing it, let alone making contact.
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