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Mantle out...sort of

Posted on 02/08/2012 by todayinbaseball

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn wasn't messing around. On this date in 1983 he banished one of the icons of the sport from having any official position in Major League Baseball.

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