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Originally Posted by cgjackson222
Catchers have won four batting titles in major league history, only three of them in the American League and they're all Joe Mauer.
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Actually, you're half right. Catchers have won 6 batting titles, 3 in each league, and Mauer has all of the A.L. crowns. The fourth St. Paul native to make it to Cooperstown, all in my adult lifetime, he's the best athlete I can recall from Minnesota since Dave Winfield, and probably a bit better. Congrats Joe!!!
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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