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The Fighting Ostriches · the Iron Jug · 1989

Oliphant has everything except this

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Tobias Oliphant DL
The Fighting Ostriches

Three All-Pro selections. Thirteen seasons. No Iron Jug. It is the oldest and least interesting kind of hole in a career and it is the only one that gets brought up, every year, by people who have never played.

This story ran on the wire in the Iron Jug of 1989. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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