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Australian baseball umpire Ken Smith's 1500th game - newspaper article

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An original newspaper article titled 'Umpire's 1500 reasons to smile', reports on the 32-year career of Australian baseball umpire Ken Smith, after he umpired his 1500th baseball game. The article, written by Heather Baillache, appeared in the 'Sound Telegraph' newspaper, dated Wednesday, December 7, 2011.

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cwa-org-100-2020.269

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People
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Sport

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Paper (Newsprint)

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13 cm

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19.7000 cm

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Sound Telegraph, December7, 2011
Umpire's 1500 reasons to smile
Baseball
By Heather Baillache

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Australian Baseball Umpires

Sound Telegraph

Baseball WA

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