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Here's the story of how Truckbox Al McClintock, a small-town greaser whose claim to fame was hitting a baseball clean across the Pembina River, almost got a tryout with the genuine St. Louis Cardinals -- but instead ended up batting against Bob Feller of Cleveland Indian Fame in Renfrew Park,... read more
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- Jamie O'Day: The narrator of this story. He describes himself as "young and pretty small at the time, not much taller than <his> dog Benito Mussolini.
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This is the story of how Truckbox Al McClintock almost got a tryout with the genuine St. Louis Cardinals of the National Baseball League, but instead ended up batting against Bob Feller, of Cleveland Indian fame, in Renfrew Park, down on the river flats, in Edmonton, Alberta, summer of 1945 or '46, no one can remember which, though the date in question has brought on more than one disagreement, which turned first to a shoving match, then to an altercation, and finally a fist fight, though not a brouhaha, the general consensus in the Six Towns area being that it takes more than two people to staff a brouhaha, the fist fight though, usually resulting in bent cartilege of someone's proboscis, and blood spots on a Sunday shirt.
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- W. P. Kinsella (Author)
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-345-37749-4
Page Count: 225
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-345-37749-4
Page Count: 225
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- Dewey: 813.54
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