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How old is that guy, anyway?(understated ages of baseball players)(Essay)

Recently a friend recalled the first major league game that he ever saw, in which Joe Grace of the St. Louis Browns hit a home run off Dutch Leonard of the Washington Senators in Griffith Stadium. I saw my first major league game there, too, in 1947. Grace, playing outfield for the Senators that day, caught a long fly ball hit by Joe DiMaggio near the leftfield bleacher wall, 405 feet from home plate. In my mind's eye I can still see Joe D on the way to second base, kicking the infield dirt, when he realized that Grace had hauled in his mighty smash.

Wanting to know more about Joe Grace, particularly how long he played, I went to two of my reference books, the ESPN 2007 ...

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