The Original Curse (38 page)

Kohout, Martin Donnell.
Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball’s Biggest Crook
. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001.

Levitt, Daniel R.
Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty
. Lincoln, Neb.: The University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Lieb, Fred.
Baseball as I Have Known It
. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1977.

Lynch, Michael T., Jr.
Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson, and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League
. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008.

Marshall, S.L.A.,
World War I
. New York: Mariner Books, 2001.

Mayer, Harold M., and Wade, Richard C.
Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Montville, Leigh.
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
. New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Morgan, Anna.
My Chicago (1918)
. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, date unknown.

Murdock, Eugene.
Ban Johnson: Czar of Baseball
. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1982.

Murphy, Cait.
Crazy ’08
. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2007.

Nowlin, Bill.
When Boston Still Had the Babe: The 1918 World Champion Red Sox
. Burlington, Mass.: Rounder Books, 2008.

Pietrusza, David.
Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
. South Bend, Ind.: Diamond Communications, Inc., 1998.

Pietrusza, David.
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.

Ritter, Lawrence S.
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
. New York: Macmillan and Company, 1966.

Russo, Frank, and Racz, Gene.
Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball
. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2006.

Seymour, Harold.
Baseball: The Golden Age
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Seymour, Harold.
The Early Years
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Sheard, Bradley.
Lost Voyages: Two Centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York
. New York: Aqua Quest Publications, Inc., 1998.

Simon, Tom.
Deadball Stars of the National League
. Dulles, Va.: Brassey’s, Inc, 2004.

Skipper, John C.
Wicked Curve: The Life and Troubled Times of Grover Cleveland Alexander
. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003.

Sowell, Mike.
The Pitch That Killed
. New York: Collier Books, 1989.

Spink, J. G. Taylor.
Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball
. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1947.

Stout, Glenn, and Johnson, Richard A.
The Cubs
. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.

Stout, Glenn, and Johnson, Richard A.
Red Sox Century
. New York:Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

Sullivan, Dean A.
Middle Innings: A Documentary of Baseball, 1900–1948
. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Veeck, Bill, and Linn, Ed.
The Hustler’s Handbook
. New York: Fireside, 1965.

Venson, Anne Cipriano.
The United States in the First World War
. New York and London: Garland, 1995.

Vice Commission of Chicago.
The Social Evil in Chicago
. Chicago: Gunthorp-Warren Printing Company, 1911.

Willmott, H. P.
World War I
. New York: DK Publishing, 2003.

Zingg, Paul J.
Harry Hooper
. Urbana, Ill.: The University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Acocella, Nicholas,
131

Agnew, Sam,
38
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151
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187
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202

Ainsmith, Eddie,
3
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116
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127

Alcock, John,
69

Alcott, Bronson,
69

Alcott, Louisa May,
69

Aldridge, Vic,
23
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117
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201

Alexander, Aimee,
50
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52
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59

Alexander, George,
51
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53

Alexander, Grover Cleveland,
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201
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205

Altrock, Nick,
102

Anderson, John,
99

Antolini, Ella,
143

Armour, J. Ogden,
16

Arrants, Aimee,
50
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52
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59

Asinof, Eliot,
47
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83
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127
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196

Attell, Abe,
46
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47
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48
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212

Bach, Johann Sebastian,
99

Bader, Lore,
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113

Bailey, Bill,
158
–59,
170
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See also
Veeck, William, Sr.

Baker, Newton,
54
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70
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85
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Baker, William F.,
19
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20
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21
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30
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47
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57

Barbare, Walter,
113
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114

Barber, Turner,
34
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58
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61
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199

Barnes, Jess,
86
–87,
88
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93
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137

Barrow, Ed,
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26
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28
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30
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35
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38
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70
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72
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Barry, Jack,
25
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26
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30
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31

Bartman, Steve,
8

Becker, Henry “Kid”,
9
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210
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214

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
99

Benton, Rube,
87
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107
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120
,
137

Bierce, Ambrose,
211

Bluhm, Red,
113
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114

Bonds, Barry,
213

Boone, Aaron,
8

Boston, during WWI,
69
–70,
80–
84

Bressler, Rube,
95

Bryan, William Jennings,
169

Buckner, Bill,
8

Burns, Bill,
46
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47
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120

Burns, George,
93

Bush, Joe,
30
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35
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76
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166
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171
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202

Caesar, Irving,
28

Canavan, Hugh,
117
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128

Carrigan, Bill,
25

Carter, Paul,
23
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58
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107
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108
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138
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201

Causey, Red,
93

Chamberlain, George Earle,
56

Chance, Frank,
7
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129

Chapman, Ray,
156
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Chase, Hal,
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Chicago, during WWI,
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158
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163

Cicotte, Eddie,
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9
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80
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194
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206
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210
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Clarke, Tommy,
200
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201

Clemenceau, Georges,
70

Clemens, Roger,
213

Cobb, Ty,
84
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127

Cochran, George,
114

Cohan, George M.,
5
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54

Comiskey, Charles,
4
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9
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30
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79
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83
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104
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139
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Connery, John T.,
14
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15

Costello, James,
121
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123
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124
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126
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128
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Craighead, Myral,
19

Craighead, Walter,
18
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19
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20
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57
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153
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160
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190

Criger, Lou,
4

Crowder, Enoch,
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92
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93
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Crusinberry, James,
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64
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81
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93
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105
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137
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174

Czar Nicholas II,
56

Daly, Tom,
201

Daniels, Josephus,
70

Darrow, Clarence,
68

Deal, Charley,
105
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125
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135
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138
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199
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201

Demaree, Al,
93

Dent, Bucky,
8

Dewey, Donald,
131

Dillhoefer, Pickles,
20

Donovan, Bill,
93

Douglas, Phil,
34
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66
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89
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105
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116
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136
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138
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174
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Doyle, Larry,
112

Dreyfuss, Barney,
23

Dryden, Charles,
172
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177

Dubuc, Jean,
114
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120
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172

Duffey, Arthur,
109

Duffy, Hugh,
70

Duffy, Sherman,
161
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200

Ebbets, Charles,
79

Edgewater Beach Hotel,
14
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15

Eight Men Out
,
3
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6
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47
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83
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196

Eller, Hod,
75
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128

Elliott, Rowdy,
58
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59
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60
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62
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201

Evans, Billy,
84
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151

Evers, Johnny,
7
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35
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38
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43
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71
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180

Faber, Red,
102

Fairbanks, Douglas,
11
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50
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51
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57

Fein, Sinn,
142

Fisher, Harry,
153

Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,”
70
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191

Flack, Jack,
61
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Flack, Max,
34
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61
–64,
66
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93
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137
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167
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172
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187
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198
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Flack, Raymond,
63

Flack, Stella,
63

Flannery, Tim,
8

Flatley, Nick,
76
,
190

Fletcher, Art,
87
,
88

Fletcher, Ben,
154

Floto, Otto,
107

Flu epidemic of 1918,
61
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156
,
182
–83,
196
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202
–3

Foley, Matt,
162

Fosdick, Raymond,
70

Fournier, Jack,
151

Fowler, Gene,
164
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166
,
208

Frazee, Harry,
8
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10
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25
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26
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34
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36
–37,
42
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72
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74
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78
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101
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113
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115
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118
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119
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139
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164
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179
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197
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205
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206

Frick, Ford,
60

Fullerton, Hugh,
79
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106
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117
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161
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167
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174
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199
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208