Billy Sunday: The Famous Nineteenth-Century Baseball Player

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Billy Sunday the famous nineteenth-century baseball player was opposed to all types of tobacco including cigars cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Won of his teammates John Clarkson smoked quit a bit. Billy once said, Clarkson has so much nicotine on him, he turns the bathwater brown. Its ironic that Sunday who so strongly disliked tobacco died of lung cancer at the age of forty seven. More information about him can be found in baseball Illustrated

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