At 5'3", she hit .273 and pitched to a 33-8 record for the Indianapolis Clowns from 1953 to 1955. I heard about it, but I hadn't experienced it. He jumped to the Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League in 1923 and pitched with them for 2 years. The integration of Major League Baseball happened at the beginning of the 1947 MLB season when Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro leagues themselves had become a . Aside from him, we also have Mamie "Peanut" Johnson (9/27/1935), the first female pitcher in the Negro Leagues. This list comprises players who have appeared in Negro league baseball. A charity baseball game that paid tribute to the Negro Leagues and their significance to the sport was held at Sacramento State's John Smith Field on Oct. 9. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Well Hank Aaron and Willie Mays are still alive. If you think white players made more money because they were more talented that's just false. While baseball acknowledgingthese Black players is important, it should only be a first step. The other is that sources like the Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia -- which basically set the standard for baseball statistics when it was released in 1969 -- wasn't all that invested in featuring Negro League records. March 10, 2007 - William "Bill' Van Buren passes away. The league ended in like 1950 so a 20 yr old then would be 86/7 this year. Basically, our earlier version of the 1926 Negro National League relied heavily on the Black weekly newspapers for games played in St. Louis -- in this case the Chicago Defender (which was distributed nationally) and the St. Louis Argus, Ashwill wrote. Born May 6, 1931, Willie Mays is the youngest. Josh Gibson. "I always really, really wanted to get the full workup for those guys -- walks, on-base percentage, fielding stats, home runs allowed by pitchers -- so you could tell what kind of players they were, how they fit into their teams, how the teams compared to each other. Allens best baseball memory is an unassisted triple play he made in the early 1930s. Lee lives in Washington, D.C. George Scales: One of the strongest-hitting 2nd basemen of his time and a .311 lifetime hitter, George played in the big-time for nearly 25 years with 6 different clubs. They also represent something else. Eventually, these two groups joined forces to create one comprehensive database. TRIBOU: Jackie Robinson played briefly in the Negro Leagues. The list includes those who played on major Negro league teams prior to integration (and any caliber Negro league team after integration) as well as in Major League Baseball. Rookies earned $75 and the stars $375. He began his professional career in the Negro Leagues in the 1920s after being discharged from reform school in Alabama. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. During his long career, Frank played on 7 pennant-winners with the Kansas City Monarchs. Mays played his rookie year in 1948 with the Birmingham Black Barons. Researchers are still looking to add fielding statistics, left/right splits and secondary pitching and batting stats for many Negro League seasons, especially those in the 1940s. Many of the men that played in the last era of the Negro Leagues (1937-1957) died in the past 18 years, and a good portion in the past ten or eleven years. Not even 60 years old. and daily newspapers in cities where games were played. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. A select few were All-Stars and one (Aaron) was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Willie Foster: Called by many the greatest left-handed pitcher in the black leagues, Willie won 4 World Series games in his long career, and may be the only pitcher, black or white, to have pitched a complete 9-inning All-Star game. Do you have a blog? Hall of Fame. \n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"rich","width":550},"type":"oembed"},{"__typename":"Markdown","content":"That started to change in the 1980s and early 90s as researchers like Dick Clark, Larry Lester, John Holway, James Riley and Phil Dixon began assembling a more robust statistical record. He played for the Louisville Clippers, and later was traded with Jesse Mitchell to the Birmingham Black Barons for a used team bus. At their high point in mid-1930s, the team starred such greats as Biz Mackey, Jud Wilson, and Dick Lundy. Some defensive statistics Copyright Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2022. Born average. That mission continues today. Ray Brown, , 1932 Pittsburgh Crawfords, Those four names aren't just pieces of data, or clickable things on a site, they are human beings who excelled despiteliving under the thick anvilof segregation. Players he signed as a scout with Chicago then the Royals included Lou Brock, Oscar Gamble, Lee Smith and Joe Carter. It was this sense of mystery combined with an increasing confidence that in fact all kinds of evidence was there to be found. That mission continues today.\n\nAnd I really do mean today. A great 3rd baseman, Dandridge compiled a .455 batting average in 3 Negro All-Star games. I remember reading about a living umpire from those times when he was interviewed, say, 3-5 years ago? Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. He was known to be a great hitter, but I don't think it was fully appreciated how pivotal he was to the Monarchs' defense.. Larry Doby debuted with the Cleveland Indians on July 5. A version of this story was first published in November, 2020, a few weeks before MLB announced that Negro League stats were being made part of the official record. Although there are two players who played before 1946 none of them appeared in 1946, thus no players from 1946 are still alive. Turkey Stearnes. As protests over racial injustice in the U.S. continue, Major League Baseball is marking the anniversary of the Negro Leagues. List of Negro league baseball players (A-D) List of Negro league baseball players (E-L) List of Negro league baseball players (M-R) List of Negro league baseball players (S-Z) Contents: M N O P Q R References Phone: 602.496.1460 Because we compile fielding statistics, we're able to know that, for example, Dobie Moore, the Kansas City Monarchs shortstop in the 1920s, was a great fielding shortstop. Jimmie Crutchfield: A slender outfielder, Jimmie signed with the great Pittsburgh Crawfords when he was only 19 years old. Frank Duncan: A Kansas City native, Frank, 69, now operates a tavern in his home town. Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. Like O'Neil, Minnie Mioso was still alive when he was denied entry in 2006, mostly because his time was so short in the Negro Leagues. An excellent all-round ballplayer and a teammate of such greats as Josh Gibson and Oscar Charleston, Jimmie is a Chicago resident where he is employed at the post office. I wanted to see them as flesh and blood people, real players who had the same kinds of complex profiles we have for players today. But you've got to establish a basic record first.. The list of teams with which he played includes the largely forgotten Miami Globetrotters, Hollywood Redbirds, Miami Red Sox, Belle Glade Redwings, Florida Cuban Giants, the Lucky Stars, the Danny Dodgers; Ft. Lauderdale Braves, Pompano Beach Yankees, Ft. Lauderdale Lucky Stars, Ft. Lauderdale Gray Sox, and the Buffalo Red Sox (a travelling team that appears to have played many of its games in West Virginia and Pennsylvania). 2006 Negro League Baseball News December 17, 2006 - Willard Brown inducted to LA. TRIBOU: Minnie Forbes will keep sharing her stories with younger generations, and others will, too. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Buck Leonard: Walter (Buck) Leonard combined with Josh Gibson for Negro baseballs best 1-2 home-run punch. Ernie Banks and Monte Irvin died a couple years ago. TRIBOU: Bob Kendrick heads the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum there. The 57 Texas native was certainly one of the smartest players of his day. That started to change in the 1980s and early 90s as researchers like Dick Clark, Larry Lester, John Holway, James Riley and Phil Dixon began assembling a more robust statistical record. In 2020, MLB recognized the Nego Leagues as major leagues. Today, stars like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account. The World Series winners that same year earned $5,959.64 and the losers $3,820.29. pic.twitter.com/qiMXrVD4RB. Created a hundred years ago, the leagues showcased Black baseball players, players who couldn't play on the major teams because of the color of their skin. Negro League Players Who Made the Major Leagues Player Negro League Team Major League Team Debut Year Jackie Robinson Kansas City Monarchs Brooklyn Dodgers 1947 Larry Doby Newark Eagles Cleveland Indians 1947 Hank Thompson Kansas City Monarchs St. Louis Browns 1947 Willard Brown Kansas City Monarchs St. Louis Browns 1947 . Just think, he was playing baseball on a team that would become the Homestead Grays years before the US entered World War 1, but he lived long enough to become a fan of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Just a humbling reminder that Jim Crow laws and segregation was less than a generation ago. Major League Baseball announced this week the 1920-1948 Negro Leagues was recognized as major league, Families of Negro Leaguers rejoice in MLB's decision to recognize league, After vowing change, Black candidates shut out again of MLB front office jobs, Oscar Charleston who hit .400 multiple times, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. He . Sam Streeter: The star pitcher for the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the 1930s, Sam pitched for the West in the inaugural Negro leagues All-Star game in 1933. Now a Los Angeles resident, Evans remembers playing against almost every great ballplayer, black and white, during the late 1920s and early 1930s. One of two players in history to win the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and MVP in his career (Verlander being the other). March 16, 2007 - Hubert "Country" Glenn, passes away. Satchel Paige, That's about five times more in salary than Black players. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Contact SABR, https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/research-collection4_350x300.jpg, /wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.png. The most important sources are the Black weekly newspapers (Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, Baltimore Afro-American, Kansas City Call, etc.) From 1940 to 1949, 1,705 men played at least one game in the National League or American League plus hundreds, maybe thousands, more in the Negro Leagues. If baseball (rightfully) believes that recognizing those players is important (and it is) then why not fully recognize them? All these early leagues were financially shaky. A select few were All-Stars and one (Aaron) was inducted into the Hall of Fame. His career was spent almost entirely playing in all black minor or semi-pro leagues, most of which were located in southern Florida. Pre-integration players. Over at the Seamheads Negro Leagues database, a dedicated few have combed through newspapers and scorebooks, photo albums and microfiche to piece together the most complete statistical record of the Negro Leagues to date. Use Mays, Greason, Golden and Teasley as the faces of a compensation plan, like lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit, and account for what was a wide disparity in pay between Black and white players during those 28 years. However, he played for minor-league clubs: What Jackson did not do was to play in any of the all-black leagues traditionally thought of as the Negro Major Leagues. When I began speaking with Ashwill about the database in September, Hall of Fame slugger Mule Suttles held the Negro Leagues single-season home run record with the 30 that he hit as a member of the St. Louis Stars in 1926. Josh Gibson holds the all-time home run record with 238 and Smokey Joe Williams struck out 1,571 batters in his 25-year career. 65 In 2000, Major League Baseball supplied a grant to the Baseball Hall of Fame to conduct . From 1940 to 1949, 1,705 men played at least one game in the National League or American League plus hundreds, maybe thousands, more in the Negro Leagues. A high average hitter and an excellent first baseman, Buck played in 12 All-Star games. The responsibility to elect Negro leagues players shifted to the Hall's Veterans Committee, but with Roy Campanella as the only Black member, the committee was hamstrung by its lack of knowledge . Born September 3, 1924 Bill Greason is the oldest player on this list. I first saw this idea mentioned in one sentence in a Deadspin story and wondered why this wasn't something discussed much more than it has been. They played primarily before the organized Negro leagues. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Join our linker program. At the onset of the digital age, enough now-aging players were still alive to share their experiences. Find out more. Newt still makes Kansas City his home. They are symbols for what should happen next. Below is a list of 52 players who played for major Negro league teams up to 1950 and eventually saw playing time for a Major League team. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Just this month, and nearly 80 years after Suttles career ended, Ashwill was able to add two more home runs to his tally, bringing his total to 32.\n\nBasically, our earlier version of the 1926 Negro National League relied heavily on the Black weekly newspapers for games played in St. Louis -- in this case the Chicago Defender (which was distributed nationally) and the St. Louis Argus, Ashwill wrote. 1928 St. Louis Stars, From there, he started collecting box scores and compiling statistics pretty much right away, Ashwill said. SIERRA: Yeah, a hundred dollars a month. Forbes is 88 and worries about being one of the last left to tell this story. Copyright 2000-2022 Sports Reference LLC. In 1924, the first year of the Colored World Series, the share of the winners, the Kansas City Monarchs, was $307.96, says Lester. Chuck Harmon played under alias of Charlie Fine for the Clowns so as not to violate his college basketball eligibility. Phoenix, AZ 85004 Pedro Dibut). A lot of the earlier versions of Negro league statistics only gave you batting averages, home runs, pitchers' won-lost records, basic stuff," Ashwill said. Our statistics are based on box scores and game stories found in contemporary newspapers, as well as the small number of scorebooks and filled-in scorecards that can be tracked down, Ashwill wrote. While the weeklies tried to cover every game they could, deadlines and limited space meant they often had to leave out a few games. Bill Evans: Bill (Happy) Evans enjoyed a brief career with the Homestead Grays in the early 1930s. Among them Fowler, Frank Grant, George Stovey, and Fleet Walker were notable players especially during the 1880s, before complete segregation. Just having a few stories here and there was not remotely enough. When the book was being put together, the Negro Leagues weren't even considered for inclusion. You will be redirected once the validation is complete. We present them here for purely educational purposes. The list does not include Negro league players who only played in the minor leagues and White Hispanic players who played in both the Negro Leagues and MLB prior to full integration (ex. O'Neil also made history when the Cubs hired him as a coach in 1962, making him the first Black member of an AL/NL coaching staff as part of Chicago's "College of Coaches." "Many of the players are gone, but their . Part of that was simply how the Negro Leagues recorded their statistics, which wasn't as robust a system as the Major Leagues'. In Cleveland, Larry Doby became the first Black player in the American League. At that meeting, they created the Negro National League. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. All 3,400 players from 1920 to 1948 will be elevated to MLB status. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. 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Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Copyright 2020 NPR. This is not a complete or exhaustive list of all the organizations and individuals who have kept the Negro Leagues alive, but it is easy to contribute to the four following organizations whether . Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Sports Reference . Or write about sports? Negro League Baseball historical stats. There was Oscar Charleston who hit .400 multiple times. Major League Baseball was segregated from 1887 through 1946. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. And they couldn't go in places to eat, so one person would go to the back door and get the food for all the players. ","type":"markdown"},{"__typename":"ExternalEmbed","data":{"__typename":"ExternalEmbedContent","html":", #Spotlight In February of 1920, The Chicago Defender previewed the formation of the Negro National League - Kansas City Selected for Meeting of Baseball Magnates - https://t.co/VANcXcLmL0 pic.twitter.com/KfBEDCalWr, A copy of the 1969 Macmillan baseball encyclopedia for show and tell @sabr. . Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. 1924 Kansas City Monarchs, Paige probably took a pay cut when he joined the Cleveland Indians in 1948.". Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Suttles pictured back row, far left. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. America's Pastime. Streeters biggest thrill in baseball was to hit a home run. He cites being selected to manage the East All-Star team in 1939 as his biggest moment. To this day, no one apparently has any idea of his whereabouts or even whether he is still living. Names of those who played in integrated organized white leagues are boldfaced, and those who played in integrated major leagues are also italicized. Buck lives in Rocky Mount, N.C., where he owns a realty agency. This page was last edited on 27 January 2023, at 00:27. 1920 Chicago American Giants, O'Neil served as a representative of the Negro Leagues on the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee from 1981-2000, and 11 Negro Leagues players were inducted through 2001 for a total of 18. There's also Charley Pride (3/18/1935), famous country singer and one of the only black people to perform on Grand Ole Opry. There would be the Royals dressed as the Monarchs, the Tigers as the Stars, the Pirates as the Crawfords or Grays, Triple-A Memphis as the Red Sox, Double-A Birmingham as the Black Barons, High-A. Ray Dandridge: Fifty-eight year old Ray Dandridge lives in Newark, N.J., and is a scout for the San Francisco Giants. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Keys bought the Giants franchise after the 1921 season and built the newly named Stars a stadium in '22. TRIBOU: Minnie Forbes owned the Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958. This article was written byJohn M. Coates, This article was published in 1972 Baseball Research Journal, The recent election of Satchel Paige to the Hall of Fame brings back memories of the old Negro leagues and the men who starred in them. He stopped playing baseball when he was younger and became a Mason I believe. Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with a . 1933 Homestead Grays, Researchers are still looking to add fielding statistics, left/right splits and secondary pitching and batting stats for many Negro League seasons, especially those in the 1940s. Hardball historians, however, are out there keeping the Negro Leagues alive. All rights reserved. "Going into the late 1930s and the early 1940s, we see player salaries jump to an average of $300 to $400 each month with the stars like Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige getting about $600-$700 a month. This List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball is largely based on the research compiled by the Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Lester said the average monthly salary of a Black player in the early 1920s was $175 a month. The leagues were full of talent and it went beyond the names you may know like Mays or Satchel Paige. The Hilldale Club, the team that lost, took home $193.23. Wells, 66, is a New York City resident. The star pitcher for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro National League in the early 1920s was a young left-hander named Dave Brown. Richard Kent, Sam Sheppard, Dr. J.W McClelland and Dr. G.B. The 1930 St. Louis Stars. We will also be adding the Puerto Rican Winter League at some point.. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Today, stars like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Nat Rogers: Now 78 years old and a waiter at Memphis Peabody Hotel, Nat writes that he played for 45 consecutive seasons in organized baseball, compiling a batting average of over .340. With the game still years away from the multimillion-dollar contracts handed to star players, Aaron's annual pay in 1959 was around $30,000. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. It wouldn't even cost baseball that much money particularly since salaries of Negro League players began to increase in the 1940s as their play became so good they were practically impossible to ignore, and as Jackie Robinson started his trek towards history. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Now 66, Bell lives in St. Louis where he is a guard at City Hall. The list includes those who played on major Negro league teams prior to integration (and any caliber Negro league team after integration) as well as in Major League Baseball. Remembered as one of the few hurlers Josh Gibson had trouble hitting against, Lee writes that Martin Dihigo was the greatest player he ever saw. TRIBOU: The last league folded in the early 1960s. I believe the oldest living Negro League ballplayer is Roosevelt Jackson. A family friend used to play for the Black Yankees, Bob Scott. It's just that you rarely get where are they nows on the guys who played 3-4 forgettable seasons,whether they were in 1930s or 1990s. This article originally appeared in the 1972 Baseball Research Journal. Nat remembers a 31-game hitting streak as his best moment in baseball. In fact, that's my long-term goal: to write a Negro League Baseball Abstract. A member of 8 All-Star squads, Willie remembers a home run he hit in 1931 to win the pennant for St. Louis as his greatest baseball thrill. Remember these four names: Rev. TRIBOU: Today, Sierra lives in New Jersey. . FORBES: And I just wonder if I'm worthy of representing, speaking about the Negro League because when I got involved, things was easier for me than it was for the one before me. The text below has been updated to reflect that. Baseball needs to retroactivelypay the newly recognized Negro League players and their surviving families. Then in 1947, he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Hank Aaron and Willie Mays also began their careers in the Negro Leagues. Of them, only 9 are still alive as of Janury 26, 2023. Marshall remembers occasionally playing 4 games a day when he was with the Philadelphia Stars and he says Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher he ever saw. 'THEY TRULY DESERVE IT:'Families of Negro Leaguers rejoice in MLB's decision to recognize league, OPINION: After vowing change, Black candidates shut out again of MLB front office jobs. There's a huge amount of information about Latin American baseball that still needs to be processed -- Black Americans played professional baseball in Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, Ashwill said. Is there any way to possibly send a baseball to try and get signed by Biddle. Members were the Brooklyn (New York) Royal Giants, Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Baltimore Black Sox, Hilldale Club of Philadelphia, and the Cuban Stars (no relation to the Cuban Stars of the NNL) and Lincoln Giants of New York City. After contacting Lester, co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and chairman of SABR's Negro Leagues Research Committee, he provided data that was absolutely staggering. Paige, now 65 and a Kansas City resident, is by far the best known of these old stars. After spotting the Black newspaper The Chicago Defender in his universitys library stacks and knowing its historical importance, he dove into the reels for the 1920 season and was surprised to see incredibly thorough coverage and box scores for the Negro National League. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. Major League Baseball has a day to honor the leagues set for next month. Pittsburgh soon produced two of the greatest teams of all time, the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, featuring such stars as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and many more. Suttles pictured back row, far left. For NPR News, I'm Doug Tribou in Ann Arbor, Mich. (SOUNDBITE OF A FOREST MIGHTY BLACK'S "REBIRTH"). While the weeklies tried to cover every game they could, deadlines and limited space meant they often had to leave out a few games. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. RHP Satchel Paige: The most famous Negro Leagues player, the age-defying Paige stayed young long enough to pitch in the majors -- including the World Series -- as a 42-year-old rookie in 1948. The numbers do not do justice to his legend. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. "Well, in the case of the Negro leagues the historical record is (and in many cases always will be) incomplete, Ashwill wrote. Its also why there are always new updates. They receivedbetween $1 to $1.50 a day for meal money. Bill Greason, Clyde Golden, Ron Teasley and Willie Mays. Paige was the first Negro League player inducted . He now operates a sporting goods store on the South Side. cnlbr.org is using a security service for protection against online attacks. Do you have a sports website? By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro leagues themselves had become a minor league circuit. And I really do mean today. SIERRA: The Clowns are paid a hundred dollars a month. In 1934, led by 20-year-old left-hander Slim Jones, the Stars defeated the Chicago American Giants in a controversial playoff series, four games to three, for the Negro National League pennant. , Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 12:52AM. Accuracy and availability may vary. For our latest update I checked through the mainstream daily newspapers in St. Louis and picked up three more St. Louis Stars games -- and Suttles homered in two of them.. They also decided not to count the interleague games which were an important part of Negro League seasons, especially in the 1940s. (Though many seasons featured approximately 50 league games, "Negro League teams played 150-175 games a year overall -- the rest of the schedule being filled up with games against white semi-pro teams, lower-level Minor Leaguers, minor Black teams, and other teams whose games we haven't counted yet," Ashwill explained.). I knew about it. Since the Negro Leauges were still around several years after Jackie Robinson's debut, I would imagine there are still a few dozen former players who are still alive. A lifetime .312 hitter, Ray remembers 1950 as a banner year when he was selected as MVP in the Triple-A American Association, while playing with the Minneapolis Millers.
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