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Effectively Wild Episode 1971: Season Preview Series: Brewers and Marlins

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Baseball Banner Mark

The banner mark was first used that year 1970 on a new trophy presented to Henry Aaron as the top vote getter in that years all star fan poll. It appeared on a range of official correspondence awards and ceremonial distributed trinkets such as cufflinks and tie bars Peter youberoth cut it loose as soon as he was installed as commissioner which was in early 1984 but they must have already designed or manufactured the 1984 all star game MVP trophy by then because the award that Gary Carter received after that all star game included the banner mark at the top probably for the final time. The Rangers signed Robbie Grossman to play some left field and the white socks signed Elvis Andrews to come back and play some

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