“Budge Patty was one of the great American players of the 1940s and ’50s,” Hall of Fame President Stan Smith said in a statement Friday.
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“Budge Patty was one of the great American players of the 1940s and ’50s,” Hall of Fame President Stan Smith said in a statement Friday.