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Memories of a baseball great

By Kevin Modesti on September 25, 2008 10:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

I was sorry to read on the AP wire this morning about the death of Mickey Vernon, the 1946 and '53 American League batting champion with the Washington Senators. Vernon was 90 when he died Wednesday in Media, Pa.

When I interviewed Fred Claire on an unrelated topic recently, the former Dodgers general manager told me how much he had enjoyed talking with Vernon not long ago.

Click here to read the column Claire wrote about Vernon for mlb.com, in which Claire remarks on how Vernon still had the incredibly detailed memory that all great baseball players seem to possess.

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