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Why does the crowd cheer at foul balls?
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04-04-2018, 09:09 PM
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joefromchicago
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My dad told me that the crowds at Comiskey Park would cheer Luke Appling every time he hit nine or ten foul balls in a row. Of course, considering the kind of teams that Appling played on, that might have been the only thing they had to cheer about.
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