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Baseball IHall addsfive moreCOOPERFTOWN, NY. rlfPI) — Robin Roberta todBob Lemon, two of thegreatest pitchers of the 1940s and 1950s, will be inducted into the Hall at Fame Monday along with four other newlyminted baseball immortalsEntering the shrine alongwith Roberts and Lemon, will be Fred Lindatrom. astar infielder for New Yorki «Giants in the 1920s. former American League umpireCat Hubbard; OscarCharleston who played his entire career in the old Negro Leagues, and Roger Connor, baseball's ftrat home run king whosecareer ended in 1997 The ceremonies for the six new inductees will bepresided over by Commissioner Bowit Kuhn, beginning at 10 AM. EDT on the lawn •’djointng theHall of FameRoberts won 288 gamesduring a career spent mostly with thePhiladelphia Phillies and Baltimore Orioles from 1948 through 1988 He it thefourth highest winning pitcher in * modernhistory if the tatter is defined as the post-1920 livelv-ball era Roberts, the star pitcher of the famous I960 Phil lie* Whir Kids ’ won 20 ormore games in six straight seasons including a 28 7 mark in 1962 Lemon now a New York Yankee coach, compiled a207 128 record during his career with the ClevelandIndiana. A convertedinfielder-outfielder with a natural siitkerball Lemon was the ace of a Cleveland staff which also includedHall of Famers Bob Feiier and Eariy Wvnn and isw wgenerally regarded as the best of modem times Hewon 20 or more games seven times, pitched a no-hitter in 1948 and won two games in the 1948 World Series with the BostonBraves Lindstrom. 70. had a 111lifetime batting average with the Giants and threeother cluha and la remembered as theyoungest piaver ever to appear in a World Series
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Ontario Daily Report
Ontario, California, US
Sun, Aug 08, 1976
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