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HC Book Club - Pesky Edition

by Rob Neyer

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Red Sox Icon Johnny Pesky Dead At 92
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If you want to know a lot more about Johnny Pesky, who left us yesterday, you could do a lot worse than Bill Nowlin’s 2004 biography:

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↵You can order the book from Amazon, here. Or -- and I sorta hate to mention this because I want people buying books -- you can just read this, free.

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