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Former Cubs All-Star infielder Glenn Beckert dies at 79 — Former Chicago Cubs second baseman Glenn Beckert died Sunday, the team announced. He was 79. — Beckert spent nine seasons with the Cubs from 1965 to 1973 before finishing his career with two seasons for the San Diego Padres.
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Steve Gardner / USA Today:
Former Chicago Cubs infielder Glenn Beckert dies at 79 — Second baseman Glenn Beckert, a mainstay on the Chicago Cubs infield from 1965-73, has died at age 79. — The Cubs confirmed Beckert's death in a social media post on Sunday morning. — Beckert won a Gold Glove award …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Dodgers batboy for Kirk Gibson's ‘impossible’ 1988 World Series home run: ‘I still get chills’ — Mitch Poole was just an anonymous batboy for the Los Angeles Dodgers 32 years ago, living at his parents' home and driving a beat-up Volkswagen. — Everything changed the evening of Oct. 15, 1988.
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Craig Edwards / ESPN:
Grading American League GMs on their best and worst MLB trades — Evaluating general managers in Major League Baseball is an incredibly tough exercise. There's the draft, free agency, coaching staff and trades, and every general manager deals with different constraints from prior regimes and from ownership.
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Agence France-Presse:
Taiwan bucks virus sports cancellations with new baseball season — Taiwan swung into a new baseball season on Sunday — with one team planning to place robot mannequins in their crowdless stands — as the island bucked the global trend for scrapping sports events during the coronavirus.
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Ken Davidoff / New York Post:
Anthony Causi, beloved Post sports photographer, dies of coronavirus at 48 — Anthony Causi, a longtime photographer for The Post whose prolific talent and larger-than-life personality made him a beloved and respected figure throughout the New York sports world, died Sunday from the coronavirus at North Shore University Hospital.
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Tim Tucker / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Freeman, Hamels weigh in on idea of Braves games without fans, family — The Braves' Freddie Freeman and Cole Hamels acknowledged the 2020 season, if there is to be one, might have to begin by playing games in distant stadiums without fans or family in attendance.
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