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Bob Boone, World Series champion and part of 3-generation baseball family, dies at 78

Bob Boone, World Series champion and part of 3-generation baseball family, dies at 78
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Bob Boone, the catcher on the Philadelphia Phillies' first World Series championship team in 1980 who won seven Gold Gloves and was part of baseball's first three-generation family, has died. He was 78. Boone's son, Bret, announced his father's death Tuesday on social media. The Phillies said in...

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