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Grover Cleveland Alexander, 63, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, won thirty games for three straight years, 4 November 1950.

Max Baer, 50, won heavyweight championship of the world in 1934 from Primo Camera, 21 November 1959.

Bert Bell, 65, commissioner of NFL from 1946 to 1959, largely responsible for reshaping professional football to the medium of television, 11 October 1959.

Edward Trowbridge Collins, 63, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman, lifetime batting average of .333, coach, manager, general manager, vice-president of the Boston Red Sox, 25 March 1951.

Hugh Duffy, 87, won first-ever Major League Baseball Triple Crown (.438 batting average, eighteen home runs), his .438 batting average is the highest in baseball history, 19 October 1954.

Clark Calvin Griffith, 85, Major League Baseball player, union leader, general manager...

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