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Ex-player still feels ties to Tribe.

Byline: Bill Lilley

Oct. 10--BARBERTON -- It was April 1954 and both Hal Naragon and the New York Yankees were riding high.

Just not together, mind you.

Naragon was a 25-year-old rookie catcher from Barberton, fresh off a two-year stint in the United States Marine Corps, who had realized a lifelong dream by making the Indians as a backup to longtime star Jim Hegan.

The Yankees, meanwhile, were coming off their fifth consecutive World Series championship under Casey Stengel.

The Indians, a very good team in their own right with several future hall of famers, seemed destined to forever chase the Yankees of Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and Billy ...

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