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Bizarre and brilliant stories from the world of sport. With bright, colorful pages organized in twopage spreads, the strange. Searles has vested even the most minor of players with full blown characters so much so that i suspect that long after im struggling to recall the title of this book ill still remember the polish librarian, the elderly gay landlord, the. These nonfiction books make information about the bermuda triangle, bigfoot, esp, ghosts, haunted places, and ufos easy for young readers to understand. An intimate look back at a simpler time to see how some players accomplished some great things. So what was so strange but true about baseball in the year 2019.
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