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Old 12-05-2021, 11:27 AM
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With Hodges, I see a player that was robbed of three years because of the War, had he had those three years, I think statistically speaking his Hall of Fame case would have been much better around the first time he retired.
There is another way the war hurt him; he started smoking while in the Marines, and that contributed to his heart attacks, including the fatal one.
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