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Posted on May 30, 2018 by admin

Richard J. Daley and Rogers Hornsby play ball!

This is a piece I wrote about the unlikely partnership between the Daley Administration and Rogers Hornsby, the greatest right-handed hitter in baseball history (and also one of the orneriest.)  Even though Hornsby seemed to be on his best behavior teaching baseball to Chicago school kids, there were a number of fun details was able to dig up.

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