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pitcher in the league. After he was struck in the thigh by a hard line drive, he worried that he might get more seriously injured and be unable to work, so he gave up baseball. Tobey Barr added, “My dad has had both hips replaced; he was up and down ladders quite often in the contracting eld, but I suspect being a pitcher contributed as well — he had a very high leg kick. My
dad is still in the electrical eld. He enjoys shing and riding his motorcycle.”4
Notes
1 Boston Globe, October 2, 1974.
2 E-mail to author from Tobey Barr, March 29, 2008.
3 e Sporting News, August 13, 1977, 34.
4 E-mail to author from Tobey Barr, March 27, 2008.
