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Posted By: Kenny Cole

I don't think you are talking about the right Bill Lange. The one believe is being discussed, the great Chicago outfielder who is reputed to have run through a fence to catch a fly, retired in 1899. As I understand it, his wife's father was a man of business and he didn't want his daughter to marry a man who played baseball. The bargain was made and kept. Lange retired at the height of his prowess to go into business with his father in law. The old timers who saw him ranked him up there with, or above, Cobb, Wagner, Ewing, and the rest of the stars of that era. He only played 7 years though. What a loss.