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...varsity managed to get only one run out of four hits and an error in the seventh. Martin led off with a single to left and took second when third baseman Pete Haeffner made the second of his three errors on Davis' grounder. Following a double play, Mo Balboni laced a single to center, scoring Martin, and Charlie Leamy contributed a base hit to right field...
...been organized in the New England mill town where he grew up. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." In those days, Birdie's hero was a former big-league catcher named Bill Haeffner. Bill lent the youngster a mitt, and Birdie's career began. Soon he could catch the fastest pitcher on the club...
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