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Originally Posted by Merkle923
Presumably just a typo in the above list, but the only "Zane Smith" to play professional baseball was the lefthanded pitcher of the Braves and Pirates and he didn't begin his professional career until 1982. He would've just turned 17 as spring training 1978 began.
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Thanks for catching this error. There is something faulty in one of my newspaper subscription services, in that issues from the Indiana (PA) Gazette from the 1990's show up when I search on 1978, but they are given dates of 1978 in the subject headings. I caught this in most cases, and remembered to scroll up to the top of the newspaper pages to see the "real" dates of issue, but forgot in the case of the Zane Smith non-roster find. I tried to avoid using the Indiana Gazette as a source. The problem didn't seem to occur with other newspapers.