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Old 11-16-2010, 06:01 PM
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I'm all about the minors !

Especially the obscure stories that go with it. Here is a quote from the 1911 Asheville Gazette:

"“Sharp, that erstwhile Eastern Carolina Leaguer, whose smiling face appears on “Old Mill” cigarette pictures, sapped all the ginger from the Knoxville ball tossers at Riverside Park yesterday afternoon when in the eighth inning, with Landgraff on second and the score tied, he smashed the pill over the left field fence for a home run.”

Here is that smiling face on the Old Mill card when he played for Goldsboro:
t210_sharp.jpg

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