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Sam Horn
The Man, The Myth, The Overweight Strike-Out King

by Larry Carroll (Lowell, MA)


Sam Horn was the man when he first came up - he was going to be Mo Vaughn before anybody knew who Mo Vaughn was! When he homered in his first Fenway Park at-bat, everybody thought he'd be the next Babe Ruth. A few years later, he was out of baseball. He was a rather rotund fellow, too.

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Copyright © 2001 by Larry Carroll Publications Inc. Posted May 18, 2001.