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Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

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Grantland Rice
Age: 73 †
Born: 1880
Born: November 1
Died: 1954
Died: July 13
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