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Grackles · the Iron Jug · 2025

Jessup has everything except this

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Orrin Jessup LB
Grackles

Two All-Pro selections. Six 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 2025. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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