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...most key situation, Brown will readily relate, came on the final day of the season, with the Gulf Coast League title on the line against the Bradentown Pirates. The Astros carried a 1-0 lead into the ninth, then the Pirates attached men to second and third with just one out. The call came to the bullpen for Brown. He followed an intentional walk with a strike out and a grounder to short. For the first time in eight years, the Astros had a Gulf League pennant. And a hero...
...spring day in 1931 a dust-covered, bowlegged young man, with a hawk nose, buffalo shoulders and long, hairy arms, marched into the St. Louis Cardinals' training camp in Bradentown, Fla. and announced to Manager Frank Frisch: "I'm Martin." Manager Frisch stared. Then he asked Rookie Martin why he was late. Martin explained that he had been detained in jail for riding a freight. "But we sent you railroad tickets." Retorted Martin: "What do you take me for, a dope? I cashed them in and rode for nothing...
...Bradentown, Ireland-her steeplechasers...
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