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What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Suicide
Strauss
Sure
Batting
Doe
Committing
Care
Jumping
Feel
Drives
Feels
Bridge
Going
Nuts
Like
Bridges

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