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| | WHMC-St. Louis, oral history, Normal "Tweed" Webb, May 4, 1970 |
 | | WEBB: In 1912, I was going to a St. Louis school and one of my classmates met me on the way to school and I had on a tweed suit, a tweed overcoat, and a tweed cap and a fellow named Johnson, he said "He got on everything that's tweed. |
 | | WEBB: And everyone remembers the old Stars park, it had a sharp right field, only 269 feet for the right hand hitter, but center field was deep, and "Cool Papa" used to catch anything that stayed in the ball park. |
 | | WEBB: Well, they inducted twenty-two in the St. Louis Amateur Hall of Fame and, heh, uh, I was along the Mathew-Dickeys, the Black players, of course they had twenty other fellows, white players in their Hall of Fame. |
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