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1 Anonymous { 05.31.07 at 1:51 pm }

Dear Marty,

Thanks for the item on Ron LeFlore.  I grew up in Michigan, and that summer where The Bird, Rusty Staub and Ron LeFlore all started in the All-Star Game was truly magical.  There was a movie about Ron LeFlore out then that told his whole story.  I don’t remember anytime in baseball where people anticipated a pitcher’s every start more than Fidrych – non-baseball fans, old ladies and housewives, would even tune in to follow, you could hear the chants in the backround on the radio broadcasts.  Valenzuaela may have had the same effect.  LeFlore was also another big story at that time – he was the ultimate leadoff man at that time.

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