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Posted By: tbob

Frank- He was so overly sensitive that he was literally run out of the majors by the catcalls and taunts of opposing players. He was called the Giant Killer because of that 1908 season when he beat Mugsy's boys 3 times in a roughly one week period at the end of the season despite playing on an awful team. If the Jints had managed to win just one of those games they would have won the flag in 1908 and Fred Merkle could have died in peace.
TB