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| | Red Smith on Pepper Martin | BaseballLibrary.com |
 | | -- Johnny Keane, a Cardinal from his first day in baseball until he managed the world champions 32 years later, was reminiscing about last year's struggle for the National League pennant when Joe Reichler, of The Associated Press, came into the Yankees' dugout. |
 | | In a baseball sense, the towns where Keane had played -- Globe, Ariz., Waynesboro in the Blue Ridge league, and Springfield, Mo. -- were a million light years from Sportsman's Park. |
 | | But as a kid in St. Louis Johnny had been a card-carrying member of the original Knothole Gang, sitting in left field and screeching, "We want a homerrr!" whenever Rogers Hornsby and Chick Hafey or Jim Bottomley went to bat. |
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