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Waddell: Oddball with a fastball

Watching Clayton Kershaw pitch against San Diego last Saturday reminded me that one of the greatest left-handed pitchers of all time spent his last days in Boerne before dying in a sanitarium in San Antonio. George Edward (Rube) Waddell was born in Butler, Pennsylvania on Oct. 3, 1876. He was tall with

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