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Cal Abrams

Age: 72

probably best remembered for being thrown out at home plate as a Brooklyn Dodger in the last of the ninth in the final game of the 1950 World Series; had he scored on Duke Snider's hit it would have forced a playoff for the National League pennant which the Phillies would go on to win on a home run the next inning; of a heart attack

Died: Miami, Feb. 25, 1997

Ewart Abner

1997 Deaths

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