February 9
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on February 9.
Events[edit]
- 1883 - The New York Grammar School League is formed. Only "regular attendees" will be permitted to play in the 14-team league.
- 1884 - The grounds of the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds are flooded under 20 feet of water from the Ohio River. It will cost $3,000 to rebuild the fallen pavilions and fences and restore the field.
- 1886 - The Kansas City Cowboys are admitted to the National League on a one-year trial basis.
- 1887 - The Kansas City Cowboys go out of business with the sale of their players to the league for $6,000. The club's spot in the league has already been taken by Pittsburgh.
- 1889 - All-America beats Chicago 10 - 6 in the shadow of the Pyramids outside Cairo, Egypt, and Cap Anson feels compelled to apologize to the Sphinx for his team's poor play.
- 1895 - New York Giants owner Andrew Freedman institutes reserved grandstand seats to attract businessmen.
- 1901 - Giants and Pirates outfielder Tom O'Brien, 28, dies in Phoenix, AZ. A popular player with the Giants, O'Brien played for Pirates in 1900, then accompanied the Giants and Superbas last fall on a trip to Cuba for a series of exhibition games. On the boat trip over, he was told that if he drank enough sea water he'd be sick, but would then be cured of any sea sickness. Both O'Brien and Kid Gleason became violently ill following the prescription, but O'Brien was so affected that all his internal organs were damaged, and he never recovered.
- 1914:
- The world tourists arrive in Rome where they stage a demonstration of the game. After a private audience with the Pope, they travel to Paris. They will be rained out in Paris and end the tour in England on February 26, playing before King George V.
- Veteran umpire Hank O'Day, who managed the Cincinnati Reds in 1912, signs to skipper the Cubs.
- 1916:
- The National League celebrates its 40th anniversary with a Waldorf-Astoria banquet. The NL's first president, Morgan G. Bulkeley, is present. The chief speaker is former president William Howard Taft.
- The National League votes down a proposal by the Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22. (The Reds want a decrease to 20.)
- 1920:
- The Joint Rules Committee bans all foreign substances or other alterations to the ball by pitchers, including saliva, resin, talcum powder, paraffin, and the shine and emery ball. A pitcher caught cheating will be suspended for ten days. The American League allows each club to name just two pitchers who will be allowed to use the pitch for one more season. The National League allows each club to name all its spitball pitchers. No pitchers other than those designated will be permitted to use the banned pitch, and none at all after this season (however, the designated pitchers will eventually be allowed to use the pitch for the rest of their careers). Other rules changes: the adoption of writer Fred Lieb's proposal that a game-winning home run with men on base be counted as a home run even if the batter's run is not needed to win the game. Also, the intentional walk is banned, and everything that happens in a protested game will go in the records.
- The Cards announce the first trade of the winter meetings. They acquire 1B Jack Fournier from the minor league Los Angeles Angels for four players, all acquired earlier. LA gets 1B Art Griggs, C Grover Hartley, P Claude Thomas, and IF Ike McAuley.
- 1922 - Judge Kenesaw Landis cracks down on phony player deals. He fines the Cards and Tigers $150 each, and three minor league clubs a total of $1,400 for violating waiver rules. In March, he will assess the Giants $1,764 for the improper transfer of a player.
- 1924 - Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith names 2B Bucky Harris, last year's team captain, as the new Nationals' manager. Harris had annoyed Griffith by playing pro basketball over the winter, in violation of his contract, but the owner still tabs him the job. Harris, 28, is at spring training when he receives the offer by letter.
- 1927 - The Giants send versatile George Kelly, along with cash, to the Reds for truculent holdout OF Edd Roush. The Giants sent Roush to the Reds in 1916.
- 1933 - Brooklyn Dodgers pitching ace Dazzy Vance is traded to the Cardinals with infielder Gordon Slade for Ownie Carroll and Jake Flowers.
- 1943 - The National League is looking for a buyer for the Philadelphia Phillies, whose owner, Gerry Nugent, has fallen in arrears on rent and bank loans. The league pays $10 a share for 4,685 out of 5,000 outstanding shares in the club.
- 1946 - Pirate southpaw Preacher Roe suffers a brain concussion in an altercation with a referee while coaching a high school basketball game in Arkansas.
- 1949 - A federal appeals court orders the $300,000 suit against baseball by Mexican League jumper Danny Gardella back to a lower court for trial.
- 1950 - The Chicago White Sox purchase C Phil Masi from the Pirates. He will finish his career with three strong years in Chicago.
- 1959 - Frank D. Lawrence, owner of the Portsmouth, VA, club, files a $250,000 suit against Commissioner Ford Frick and Major League Baseball for breach of contract, alleging that broadcasts of major league games effectively forced him out of business.
- 1961 - Willie Mays signs for $85,000, currently the biggest contract in Major League Baseball.
- 1971 - Former Negro Leagues P Satchel Paige is nominated for the Hall of Fame. On June 10th, the Hall's new Special Committee on the Negro Leagues will formally select Paige for induction.
- 1972 - California Angels IF Chico Ruiz, age 33, is killed in an auto crash in San Diego.
- 1976 - Oscar Charleston is selected for the Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues.
- 1980 - The late Yankee catcher Thurman Munson is inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame of Kent State University.
- 1981 - At the age of thirty-seven, Joe Morgan inks a one-year deal with the San Francisco Giants
- 1982 - The Reds trade P Paul Moskau to the Baltimore Orioles for IF Wayne Krenchicki.
- 1984 - The Los Angeles Dodgers waive two-time National League All-Star Dusty Baker, who had vetoed a trade to Oakland during the winter meetings.
- 1988 - The A's sign a one-year deal with free agent DH Don Baylor.
- 1992 - The Indios de Mayagüez win the Caribbean Series with a 8 - 2 victory in the finale, paced by strong pitching from Roberto Hernández.
- 1994:
- The Philadelphia Phillies trade P Terry Mulholland and a player to be named later to the New York Yankees in exchange for P Bobby Munoz, 2B Kevin Jordan and minor league P Ryan Karp.
- The Ted Williams Retrospective Museum and Library opens in Hernando, FL.
- 1995:
- Darryl Strawberry pleads guilty to income tax evasion and will spend three months in prison, in addition to paying back taxes, interest, and penalties.
- The Senadores de San Juan finish the Caribbean Series with a 6-0 record. The Puerto Rican "Dream Team" features Bernie Williams, Carlos Delgado, Edgar Martinez, Juan Gonzalez, Roberto Alomar, Carlos Baerga and Ruben Sierra.
- 1998 - Daiei Hawks star Hiroki Kokubo (the 1997 Pacific League slugging leader) is suspended for eight weeks for tax evasion.
- 2000 - The Reds send four players - pitcher Brett Tomko, outfielder Mike Cameron and two minor leaguers to the Mariners and agree to a contract extension to obtain Seattle's superstar Ken Griffey Jr. Junior's nine-year $116.5 million contract is the richest package in history, but in the current market is considered quite a bargain.
- 2001 - After 13 months of negotiations, Derek Jeter and the Yankees finalize a $189 million, ten-year contract. The deal makes the All-Star shortstop second only to Alex Rodriguez ($252 million/10 years) as highest-paid player in the history of the sport.
- 2005 - The Cubs trade reliever Kyle Farnsworth (4-5, 4.73) and a player to be named to the Tigers in exchange for pitcher Roberto Novoa (1-1, 5.09) and minor leaguers Scott Moore and Bo Flowers. Farnsworth's inconsistency out of the bullpen last season made him very unpopular with the Wrigley Field fans.
- 2006:
- Free agent C Bengie Molina who hit .295 with 15 homers and 69 RBI for the Angels last year, comes to terms on a $5 million, one-year deal with the Toronto Blue Jays with a $7.5 million mutual option for 2007 and a $500,000 buyout clause. Along with starter A.J. Burnett and closer B.J. Ryan, third baseman Troy Glaus and first baseman Lyle Overbay, the 31-year-old Gold Glove catcher becomes the latest blue chip player to join Toronto during the off-season.
- Deliberating for a little more than four hours, a jury rules the Angels did not breach a contract with the city of Anaheim when the ball club changed its name. Thirteen months ago, the team known as the Anaheim Angels became the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim", prompting the city where it plays to file a law suit claiming the change in name amounted to at least $100 million in lost revenue.
- 2008 - Mark Kelly, a former Philadelphia Phillies farmhand, throws a one-hit shutout of the New South Wales Patriots in game two of the Claxton Shield finals to give the Western Australia Heelers the title. Kelly allows only a Gavin Fingleson single in shutting down a lineup which includes former California League batting champion Brendan Kingman. Mitch Graham's solo homer off Pitcher of the Year Tim Cox is the only run of the contest. Kelly is named MVP of the 2008 Shield.
- 2009 - Twelve-time All-Star and three-time MVP Alex Rodriguez publicly admits to using steroids from 2001 to 2003, while a member of the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez apologizes for his past errors; he had not commented on the issue since Sports Illustrated had broken a story about a positive 2003 test two days earlier. He will be caught using PEDs again in 2013 as part of the investigation into Biogenesis.
- 2010:
- P Scott Schoeneweis signs a contract with the Brewers after pitching for Arizona last season. It was a year marked by tragedy, with the sudden death of his wife Gabrielle from a drug overdose on May 20th, leaving Schoeneweis in lone care of four children aged 16 or younger.
- The Twins sign OF Jacque Jones, who played for Minnesota from 1999 to 2005. He is attempting a comeback after spending last season with the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League. The Twins also lose OF Jason Pridie, who is claimed on waivers by the Mets.
- The Orioles sign veteran left-handed pitchers Mark Hendrickson and Will Ohman, and designate Armando Gabino for assignment. Both lefties will compete for spots in the bullpen.
- 2011 - In the first salary arbitration decision of the off-season, Pittsburgh P Ross Ohlendorf is a winner, being awarded a salary of $ 2.025 million in spite of an ugly 1-11 record in 2010.
- 2013 - The Canberra Cavalry win their first Australian Baseball League title, topping the Perth Heat, 7 - 6, to sweep the best-of-three finals. 1B Aaron Sloan goes 5 for 8 with a homer in the championship series to be named MVP. In this game, Perth pitching star Warwick Saupold gives up nine hits and six runs in only three innings, while Ryan Stovall drives in three for Canberra and Michael Wells hits the deciding home run in the 7th off Jack Frawley to break a 6 - 6 tie.
- 2014 - In the first salary arbitration cases to be decided in two years, P Andrew Cashner wins against the San Diego Padres while Vinnie Pestano is a loser in his dispute with the Cleveland Indians. In 2013, all potential cases had been settled before a final decision by the arbitrator.
- 2017 - Major League Baseball announces that a variation of the "Schiller Rule" used in international baseball will be tested in two Rookie-level minor leagues this season. In the Gulf Coast League and the Arizona League, if a game is tied after nine innings, every subsequent inning will start with a runner already on second base. The rule will eventually make its way into the majors in 2020.
- 2019 - On the final day of first-round action in the 2019 Caribbean Series, Toros de Herrera defeat the Cangrejeros de Santurce, 1 - 0, to clinch a spot in the finals. Oriel Caicedo starts things off with 5 1/3 scoreless innings and Manny Corpas gets the save. Herrera, the first Panamanian team to play in the tournament in six decades, will face the Leñadores de Las Tunas, representing Cuba, who punch their ticket to the finals with a 3 - 0 victory over Cardenales de Lara.
- 2020 - The Mookie Betts trade, originally completed on February 4th but which had threatened to unravel due to concerns by the Red Sox over the health of Twins prospect Brusdar Graterol, is finally completed. Graterol now goes to the Dodgers, who send Jeter Downs and Connor Wong to Boston as compensation, and receive Luke Raley and a draft pick from the Twins while also sending them a player to be named later.
- 2023:
- The Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2023: Ramón Hernández (2006 Caribbean Series MVP), slugger Luis Raven, Series mainstay Robert Pérez and writer José Antero Núñez are honored.
- The Padres sign ace P Yu Darvish to a six-year contract extension worth $108 million.
- The 2023 Caribbean Series proceeds to the semifinals. The Tigres del Licey beat the Cañeros de Los Mochis. 40-year-old Robinson Canó scores the first run in an 8 - 3 victory after beating out a bunt; Luis Barrera raps three hits and Esmil Rogers gets the win. In the other game, the host Leones del Caracas top the Vaqueros de Monteria, 7 - 5, with four RBI from José Rondón. Anthony Vizcaya slams the door for his fourth save of the Series.
- 2024:
- The Tiburones de La Guaira defeat the defending champion Tigres del Licey and defending Series MVP César Valdéz, 6 - 0, in the final game of the Caribbean Series to earn the first title in team history, and the first by a Venezuelan team in 15 years. Ricardo Pinto, who is named Caribbean Series MVP, pitches 5 2/3 innings for the win, while Ozzie Guillen becomes only the second person to lead a team to victory in both the World Series and Caribbean Series, after Tommy Lasorda. A record crowd of 36,098 is present at LoanDepot Park in Miami, FL, breaking the all-time record set earlier in the tournament.
- The Federales de Chiriquí win the 3rd-place game, 5-4, over the Curaçao Suns. Down 4-1, they get 4 2/3 shutout innings of relief from Samuel Burgos while Iván Herrera's homer off Cody Mincey in the 7th caps the comeback.
Births[edit]
- 1842 - Aaron Burt Champion, executive (d. 1895)
- 1852 - Lyman Drake, outfielder (d. 1932)
- 1863 - Charley Bassett, infielder (d. 1942)
- 1864 - Harry Pulliam, NL president (d. 1909)
- 1867 - Sumner Bowman, pitcher (d. 1954)
- 1867 - John McCarthy, pitcher (d. 1942)
- 1870 - Kanoe Chuma, author; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1932)
- 1870 - Hi Ladd, outfielder (d. 1948)
- 1887 - Heinie Zimmerman, infielder (d. 1969)
- 1893 - Cecil Johnson, outfielder (d. 1977)
- 1895 - John Cason, catcher (d. 1951)
- 1895 - Wally Hood, outfielder (d. 1965)
- 1897 - Adrian Lynch, pitcher (d. 1934)
- 1898 - C. L. Taylor, outfielder (d. 1980)
- 1899 - Specs Toporcer, infielder (d. 1989)
- 1900 - Tom Gee, catcher (d. 1984)
- 1902 - Don Hankins, pitcher (d. 1963)
- 1902 - Jimmy Powers, sportswriter (d. 1995)
- 1902 - Julie Wera, infielder (d. 1975)
- 1903 - Roy Mahaffey, pitcher (d. 1969)
- 1908 - Buzz Boyle, outfielder (d. 1978)
- 1912 - Dutch Dietz, pitcher (d. 1972)
- 1913 - Tony Robello, infielder (d. 1994)
- 1914 - Bill Veeck, owner; Hall of Famer (d. 1986)
- 1915 - Harvey Green, pitcher (d. 1970)
- 1916 - Tex Hughson, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Freddy Schmidt, pitcher (d. 2012)
- 1917 - Moon Mullen, infielder (d. 2013)
- 1917 - Shigeharu Murata, NPB pitcher (d. ????)
- 1918 - Jodie Phipps, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 1999)
- 1925 - Ken Kirby, umpire (d. 1998)
- 1925 - Andrés Tanaka, minor league outfielder and manager
- 1925 - Vic Wertz, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1983)
- 1928 - Larry Claflin writer (d. 1981)
- 1928 - Erv Palica, pitcher (d. 1982)
- 1932 - Tatsuro Hirooka, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1934 - Ted Wills, pitcher
- 1937 - Clete Boyer, infielder (d. 2007)
- 1942 - Hal Gilson, pitcher (d. 2022)
- 1943 - Kosuke Matsuoka, NPB infielder
- 1944 - Jim Campanis, catcher
- 1944 - Randy Schwartz, infielder
- 1944 - Chin-Yeh Yeh, Chinese Taipei national team infielder
- 1945 - Jim Nash, pitcher
- 1949 - John Andrews, pitcher
- 1949 - Nin-Fung Mak, Hong Kong national team manager
- 1949 - John Young, infielder (d. 2016)
- 1951 - Eddie Solomon, pitcher (d. 1986)
- 1953 - Rick Tomlin, minor league coach
- 1954 - Aquiles Peña, Dominican national team outfielder
- 1955 - Jerry Keller, minor league infielder
- 1955 - John Urrea, pitcher
- 1956 - Dan Morgan, minor league pitcher (d. 1996)
- 1956 - Mark Naehring, minor league infielder
- 1956 - Jeff Taylor, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
- 1956 - Steve Taylor, minor league pitcher
- 1956 - Mookie Wilson, outfielder
- 1957 - Shigetoshi Sugiyama, Japanese national team infielder
- 1957 - Pat Underwood, pitcher
- 1958 - Pete O'Brien, infielder
- 1959 - Reinaldo Costa, Cuban league pitcher (d. 2021)
- 1961 - Roberto Cabalisti, Italian Baseball League pitcher
- 1961 - John Kruk, infielder; All-Star
- 1961 - Mitch Seoane, minor league infielder and manager
- 1962 - Dan Van Cleve, minor league outfielder (d. 2013)
- 1964 - Michael Wäller, Bundesliga pitcher
- 1964 - Ed Whited, infielder
- 1965 - Doug Linton, pitcher
- 1966 - Pat Austin, minor league infielder
- 1967 - Todd Pratt, catcher
- 1967 - Dan Shulman, broadcaster
- 1968 - Robert Eenhoorn, infielder
- 1968 - Brad Holman, pitcher
- 1968 - Koji Noda, NPB pitcher
- 1969 - Ralf Eckel, Bundesliga pitcher
- 1969 - Alberto Hernández, Cuban National League catcher
- 1970 - Greg Beals, college coach
- 1970 - John Burke, pitcher
- 1970 - Roman Talda, Extraliga infielder
- 1970 - Hugh Walker, minor league outfielder
- 1971 - Ken Felder, minor league outfielder
- 1971 - Masaru Imazeki, NPB pitcher
- 1973 - Yoshitomo Tani, NPB outfielder
- 1973 - Yukihiko Wada, Japanese national team pitcher
- 1975 - Mark Farris, minor league infielder
- 1975 - Vladimir Guerrero, outfielder; All-Star
- 1976 - Yosuke Takasu, NPB infielder
- 1977 - Napoleon Calzado, outfielder
- 1977 - Monte Lee, college coach
- 1977 - Geraldo Padua, minor league pitcher
- 1977 - Peter Wermuth, Australian Baseball League executive
- 1977 - Yufeng Zhang, China Baseball League infielder
- 1979 - Akinori Iwamura, infielder
- 1979 - Chen Lu, China Baseball League catcher
- 1979 - Mike Tonis, catcher
- 1980 - Jae-woo Lee, KBO pitcher
- 1981 - Darwin Marrero, minor league pitcher
- 1983 - Brian Sewell, First Division pitcher
- 1984 - Eric Eymann, minor league infielder
- 1984 - Dioner Navarro, catcher; All-Star
- 1984 - Mayker Sandoval, minor league infielder
- 1984 - William Ponce, minor league pitcher
- 1985 - Jae-won Oh, KBO infielder
- 1986 - Josh Judy, pitcher
- 1986 - Nate Long, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Yordan Manduley, minor league infielder
- 1987 - Maxim Ayzatulin, Russian national team infielder
- 1987 - Chun-Chin Huang, CPBL pitcher
- 1988 - Kyeong Kang, minor league outfielder
- 1988 - Takahiro Okada, NPB outfielder
- 1989 - Peter Avvento, Italian Baseball League pitcher
- 1989 - Chris Mezger, minor league pitcher
- 1989 - Danny Muno, infielder
- 1989 - Jim Patterson, minor league pitcher
- 1989 - Jake Smolinski, outfielder
- 1990 - Randall Delgado, pitcher
- 1990 - O'Koyea Dickson, outfielder
- 1990 - Graham Hicks, minor league pitcher
- 1990 - Henry Rodriguez, infielder
- 1991 - Aly Gonzalez, minor league catcher
- 1991 - Miguel Lara, Bolivian national team pitcher
- 1991 - Erickdavis Marquez, minor league pitcher
- 1991 - Levi Michael, minor league infielder
- 1992 - Andrés Duque, minor league outfielder
- 1993 - Cory Russell, college coach
- 1993 - Chaoqun Zheng, China Baseball League pitcher
- 1994 - Cristian Cano, minor league infielder
- 1995 - Tate Matheny, minor league outfielder
- 1995 - Bruce Zimmermann, pitcher
- 1996 - Brewer Hicklen, outfielder
- 1998 - Vidal Bruján, outfielder
- 1998 - Tyler Croft, South African national team outfielder
- 1998 - Daniel Mendelsohn, Bundesliga pitcher
- 1998 - Victor Ngoepe, minor league infielder
- 2000 - Logan O'Hoppe, catcher
- 2001 - Andrys Pérez, Cuban league catcher
- 2001 - Scott Prins, minor league pitcher
- 2001 - Jian Yi, minor league pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1904 - Erastus Wiman, owner (b. 1834)
- 1912 - Adam Wirth, umpire (b. 1840)
- 1914 - Buster Brown, pitcher (b. 1881)
- 1915 - Red Waller, pitcher (b. 1883)
- 1916 - John Bickerton, manager (b. 1848)
- 1928 - Bill Farmer, catcher (b. 1864)
- 1936 - Trick McSorley, infielder (b. 1852)
- 1938 - Charlie Daniels, pitcher (b. 1861)
- 1942 - John Fischer, pitcher (b. 1856)
- 1944 - Johnny Johnson, outfielder (b. 1916)
- 1947 - Dan Barry, umpire (b. 1886)
- 1958 - Cowboy Jones, pitcher (b. 1874)
- 1962 - Tex Burnett, catcher, manager (b. 1899)
- 1962 - Bernie Duffy, pitcher (b. 1893)
- 1963 - Ray Starr, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1906)
- 1967 - Billy Burke, pitcher (b. 1889)
- 1968 - Lou Bruce, outfielder (b. 1877)
- 1972 - Chico Ruiz, infielder (b. 1938)
- 1976 - Ziggy Hasbrook, infielder (b. 1893)
- 1977 - Roy Hansen, pitcher (b. 1898)
- 1977 - Ollie Klee, outfielder (b. 1900)
- 1978 - Dozier Hood, player (b. 1912)
- 1981 - Henry McHenry, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1910)
- 1983 - Jackie Hayes, infielder (b. 1906)
- 1987 - Larry French, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1907)
- 1993 - Pete Quesada, owner (b. 1904)
- 1994 - Ray Lamanno, catcher; All-Star (b. 1919)
- 1994 - Joe Mowry, outfielder (b. 1908)
- 1994 - Sam Parrilla, outfielder (b. 1943)
- 1998 - Gene Collins, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1925)
- 1998 - Elbert Eatmon, pitcher (b. 1914)
- 1998 - Bill Froats, pitcher (b. 1930)
- 2002 - Tsuneo Ikeda, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1911)
- 2002 - Chris Vierira, outfielder (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Billy Parker, infielder (b. 1942)
- 2005 - Tsuneo Mitomi, NPB pitcher (b. 1920)
- 2006 - Motoshi Fujita, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1931)
- 2007 - Hank Bauer, outfielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1922)
- 2009 - Ray Roman, minor league catcher (b. 1962)
- 2010 - Efraín Ibarra, minor league umpire; Salon de la Fama (b. 1940)
- 2015 - Buster Rhame, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)
- 2015 - Claude Ruel, minor league player (b. 1938)
- 2018 - Wally Moon, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1930)
- 2019 - Jerry Casale, pitcher (b. 1933)
- 2019 - Milt Welch, catcher (b. 1924)
- 2021 - Frank Marsh, minor league outfielder (b. 1921)
- 2022 - Rudy Abbott, college coach (b. 1940)
- 2022 - Jeremy Giambi, outfielder (b. 1974)
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