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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

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Vida Blue
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 28
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Baseball Player
Mansfield
Louisiana
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Boys
Finley
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Charlie
Stomach
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Baseball

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