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Old 11-28-2019, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Volod View Post
Maybe you wondered why a restaurant in Nashville hung a picture of Leonard? Beats me, but don't think it would have anything to do with him pitching the Red Sox to a win in game four of the 1916 World Series against...the Brooklyn Robins! He also became a millionaire after his playing days by going into the wine and fruit growing business in California.
Now that is an interesting coincidence about pitching against the Brooklyn Robins and the picture was hanging in a Red Robin restaurant. By the way Red Robin has some very good burgers.

I actually did know about his success after his playing days. I just got finished listening to an audiobook for a second time about Ty Cobb called A Terrible Beauty. Dutch Leonard had a couple of confrontations with Cobb over the years. This is a tremendous book trying to set the record straight about how Ty Cobb was not as much of a monster as people make him out to be.
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