Del Baker Story typescript 1965 Lou Barbour. 1965

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Del Baker Story typescript 1965 Lou Barbour. 1965

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Louis Barbour, former travelling secretary for the Chicago White Sox, wrote his eleven-page biography in April 1965 as well as a twelve-page biography of Del Baker. Del Baker played and managed for the Detroit Tigers. Both of these biographies are unpublished.

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