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Local author writes second book about baseball history
News-Daily.com, November 21, 2005 by Jeffery Whitfield
A foul ball flew forward into the stands at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia, leaping off the bat of Phillies Shortstop Chico Fernandez. Moments later five-year-old John Shiffert got the ball after his father retrieved it.
"I've never gotten another foul ball since that game," said Shiffert, who attended the game with his father in 1957.
Though the Phillies lost the contest to the Cincinnati Reds, Shiffert, now 53, recalls the game as a moment that sparked his lifelong interest in baseball. Shiffert is Clayton State University Director of University Relations, a baseball historian and sportswriter.
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