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'DOC' TONKIN: A MAJOR-LEAGUE, ONE-GAME WONDER
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CONCORD - Move over Moonlight Graham. Slide aside John Paciorek
and Larry Yount. Get out of here Lou Proctor, you impostor.
Make room for one of Concord's own -- Harry Glenville (Doc)
Tonkin, erstwhile major league baseball pitcher -- who played his
one major league game 83 years ago today.
Here's what the Baseball Encyclopedia, the bible for those
nutty about the national pastime, has on Tonkin: born, Aug. 11,
1881, in Concord, died, May 30, 1959, in Miami; bats left, throws
left; 5-9, 165 lbs. And for his major league career: no pitching
decisions, an earned run average of 6.75, 2.2 ...
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