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Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
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Bat-and-ball game
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Rollie Fingers
American baseball player (born 1946)
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Major League Baseball franchise in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Pitcher
Player who pitches the ball in baseball
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