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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

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Billy Sunday
Age: 72 †
Born: 1862
Born: November 19
Died: 1935
Died: November 6
Baseball Player
Evangelist
Ames
Iowa
William Ashley Sunday
Nasty
Dirty
Command
Sports
Fighting
Business
Damnable
Power
Naughty
Rotten

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