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- <text id=89TT0212>
- <title>
- Jan. 23, 1989: Died:Bill Terry
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 23, 1989 Barbara Bush:The Silver Fox
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 55
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- <p> DIED. Bill Terry, 90, first baseman and manager of the old
- New York Giants, who compiled a lifetime batting average of
- .341 and was the last National League player to hit above .400
- in a season (.401 in 1930); in Jacksonville. A left-handed
- hitter who rarely struck out, Terry spent his major-league
- playing career (1923-36) with the Giants. As manager, he won
- three pennants and one World Series title (1933).
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- </body></article>
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