A well-traveled catcher from the Lome Star State smacked a three-run double to put the Detroit Tigers ahead of the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the World Series on Oct. 10, 1945.
Paul Rapier Richards was born in 1908 at Waxahachie, a baseball hotbed in those days where several big-league clubs came to the area for spring training. The town with the name that has twisted so many Yankee to...
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