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Don Gutteridge

Don Gutteridge, the prototypical baseball lifer, died on Sunday at the age of 96. He had been the last surviving member of the St. Louis Cardinals’ “Gas House Gang” of the 1930s. Gutteridge was the manager of the White Sox on one of my earliest baseball cards. Typical skipper-like pose: Standing with one foot on […]

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One of the first baseball cards I can remember is Don Gutterridge as manager of the Chicago White Sox. He seemed so old then (from the perspective of a ten-year-old), I was amazed to see his still around. His is profiled in the Pittsburgh Morning Sun’s on-line presence as coauthor of Getting Started In Baseball, […]

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