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| | HeraldNet: Talkin' baseball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | If there was a Paul Bunyon of Snohomish County baseball, it was Earl Averill, the original "Earl of Snohomish," the only ballplayer from the state of Washington in the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. That is, until this summer, when Ryne Sandberg will be inducted. |
 | | Larson has dug up so much material on Averill that he believes he has enough for a book, if he were so inclined to write one, which he is not. |
 | | His boyhood hero: Earl Torgeson, a left-handed hitting first baseman who, like Averill, was from Snohomish and who, like Averill, went on to a long career in the big leagues. |
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