Over the past few years, I have become friends with one of Earl Averill's sons. Really fun to listen to him tell stories about his dad as well as looking through old photo albums and boxes of newspaper articles. In particular, I have always been interested in the All-American baseball tour to Japan (with Moe Berg, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, etc…) and he had a lot to share with me about it. A connection with the past that is slowly disappearing.
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