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50 Biggest Baseball Myths
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Toropov thoroughly explores all fifty of theses myths in his book and explains in detail why each of them is a myth and often cites various 'expert' testimony combined with his own original research.</p> </TD></TR><TR><TD><IMG width="50" height="10" src="http://baseball-almanac.com/legendary/../images/spacer.gif" /> <TABLE width="605" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><TBODY><TR><TD width="125" class="topquote"><IMG width="100" height="85" border="0" alt="" src="http://baseball-almanac.com/legendary/../images/typewriter.jpg" /> </TD><TD class="topquote"><DIV align="left">"#15. 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