Baseball lifer Dallas Green, who piloted Phillies to 1980 title, dies at 82

As a big league pitcher, Dallas Green was pretty mediocre. “I was a 20-game winner,” he would joke, “it just took me five years to do it.” Instead, it was in another role where the imposing, 196-cm Green really made noise. “When you think of big, with that deep voice, that booming voice, he could […]

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