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Lest We Forget: Robert Redford

September 16, 2025

Sad news about the passing of Robert Redford, who died this morning at the age of 89. Here’s the obituary from The New York Times. Of course, for baseball fans, Redford was best remembered for his role as Roy Hobbs in the screen version of The Natural. He also served as the narrator for The Glove, a […]

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Apropos to the previous entry, we might have a Rob Neyer moment here. In the snippet, Redford claims to have been in New York where he attended a Yankees-Red Sox game. He mentions that Maris and Mantle were in the lineup, but not Williams. He doesn’t give a  date, but it had to have been […]

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