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6-23 Jerry Grillo joins Talkin' Baseball to talk about his book- "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize"

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Author Jerry Grillo joins Talkin' Baseball to talk about his book- "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize." Johnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a professional player at seventeen, embarking on an extended tour of the expansive St. Louis Cardinals Minor League system.

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Marty Lurie was born in Brooklyn, New York on Feb. 1st, 1946. He saw his first baseball game in Ebbe 
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