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Ottumwa, Iowa

1 clipping from Ottumwa, Iowa.

Long column headlined Day of the Umpire, the parable of an ordinary baseball game and its chief executive, written entirely in mock biblical language.

Behold now the man that is an umpire, even a baseball umpire

The Ottumwa Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa · 1904

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