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02-12-2003, 10:58 AM
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Hoyt Wilhelm and Nestor Chylak
What common experience connects this HoF pitcher and the HoF Umpire?
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02-12-2003, 01:43 PM
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Sounds too easy for Chylak to have been the plate umpire in Wilhelm's no hitter.
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02-12-2003, 02:16 PM
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Too easy to be true, indeed.
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02-13-2003, 10:46 AM
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It happened around Xmas time.
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02-13-2003, 05:07 PM
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In 1944.
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02-13-2003, 06:03 PM
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Both won the Purple Heart?
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02-14-2003, 10:50 AM
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Yes, indeed, but there is just a little more to it. They were wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.
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