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Frank Bird: From Spencer, Mass., To The St Louis Browns

Posted: 21st November 2009 by Marty Civin in MLB
Back in the late 1930s, I used to observe a tall man, laboriously walking along Mechanic Street. Frank BirdÆs affliction was that he was paralyzed on one side. Here was the story that I heard when I was a kid. The old timers in town said that Mr. Bird had been a big league baseball player in his younger days. One extremely hot day he hit a home run. Immediately after ...