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KCBOOMER

02-12-2003 10:58 AM

Hoyt Wilhelm and Nestor Chylak

What common experience connects this HoF pitcher and the HoF Umpire?

YankeeLinks

02-12-2003 01:43 PM

Sounds too easy for Chylak to have been the plate umpire in Wilhelm's no hitter.

KCBOOMER

02-12-2003 02:16 PM

Too easy to be true, indeed.

KCBOOMER

02-13-2003 10:46 AM

It happened around Xmas time.

KCBOOMER

02-13-2003 05:07 PM

In 1944.

YankeeLinks

02-13-2003 06:03 PM

Both won the Purple Heart?

KCBOOMER

02-14-2003 10:50 AM

Yes, indeed, but there is just a little more to it. They were wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.

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