Talk:Sparky Adams

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Did you know... that Major League Baseball player Sparky Adams was part of the St. Louis Cardinals team in 1930 when every single regular player had a batting average over .300, the only time in history this has happened?

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Correction on middle name

One correction to Sparky's entry - he didn't have a middle name, only the initial "J" as in Earl J. Adams. I believe that "John" was added by a sports writer someone along the line because it was his father's name. -- Michael Adams, Sparky's grandson

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