Today is January 8, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1990. Today we’ll open a copy of the New York Times and read an obituary a man named John Sylvester, and in the process we’ll see how a baseball legend is born, and then embellished by an overzealous press eager to cater to a hyper-sentimental baseball-loving public.

 

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