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Stanley Benham, 57, U.S. bobsled champion in the early 1950s, 22 April 1970.
Moe Berg, 70, major league baseball catcher from 1924 to 1939 and reputed spy, 29 May 1972.
Lyman Bostick, 28, professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels, 23 September 1978.
Ezzard Charles, 53, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-1951), 28 May 1975.
Paul Christman, 61, professional football player in the 1950s and later television sports announcer, 2 March 1970.
Fred Corcoran, 72, helped found the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1950, 23 June 1977.
Alvin Crowder, 73, major league baseball pitcher (1926— 1936), 3 April 1972.
Arthur Daley, 69, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist for The New York Times, 3 January 1974.
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Dean, 63, Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher in the 1930s; won thirty games in 1934, 17 July 1974.E. A. Diddle, 74, Western Kentucky basketball coach for forty-three years, 2 January 1970.
Charles Evans, 89, first winner of the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur golf championships in the same year in 1916, 6 November 1979.
Daniel Ferris, 87, official of the Amateur Athletic Union from 1907 until his death, 2 May 1977.
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