Baseball: a million reasons to love it and a few dozen to hate it

by L.M. Sutter, Post Special Writer
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Leo “Muscle” Shoals (right), while playing for the Reidsville Luckies of the Carolina League in 1949. He hit 55 home runs that season. (courtesy of the News & Observer, Raleigh NC)


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