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Boots Poffenberger

Bits and pieces, June 19

June 19, 2014

You gotta give credit to some authors. All authors, actually, but some more. For a writer to take a subject like Boots Poffenberger, a pitcher who appeared in just 57 games over and three-year Major League career which ended before he was 25, and turn it into a full-blown biography is an accomplishment. Here’s a […]

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Happy birthday, Boots Poffenberger

July 1, 2010

No book about Cletus Elwood, born this date in 1915. I just thought the name was cool.

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