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Before Lou Gehrig There Was “Pep”

T EXAS History This Week in Texas History Fifty-one years after playing in his last major-league game, a talented Texan tragically struck down in the prime of life finally made it into the Baseball Hall ofFame on Aug. 7, 1972.Four or five years after Ross Middlebrook Youngs’ birth at Shiner in 1897, his father moved the family to San Antonio. Little Ross had just turned ten when his dad…

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