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Jerry Coleman
Age: 4 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 14
Died: 1929
Died: January 30
Baseball Player
Military Officer
San Jose
California
Gerald Francis Coleman
Baseball
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Country

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Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.
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DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.
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You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
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Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
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There's two heads to every coin.
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That home run ties it up, 1-0.
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Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.
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I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.
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It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.
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I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.
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Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.
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If ever an error had F written on it, that grounder did.
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Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.
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If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.
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Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.
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It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.
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The big ballpark can do it all!
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That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.
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They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.
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Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!
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