Angel Hernandez to retire immediately
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Angel Hernandez to retire immediately
Baseball offers perhaps the world’s richest data set: pretty much everything that has happened on a major-league playing field in the past 140 years has been dutifully and accurately recorded, and hundreds of players play in the big leagues every year.
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temporary ROD, for conduct unbecoming an officer, or CUBO,
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