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douglas9

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Thu Nov 21, 2013, 05:58 AM Nov 2013

Mr. Cub

Of Wednesday’s 16 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, few require a background check. Two resonate so deeply with their roots, they built their stories on them. Loretta Lynn grew up a coal miner’s daughter back in Butcher Holler. Bill Clinton believed in a place called Hope.

Ernie Banks? Born and raised in Dallas, where he remains the greatest baseball player from the city and smack in the middle of the argument over its best athlete ever.

But first you’d have to find anyone who could tell you where he’s from.

“Most people don’t even know he’s from Texas,” said Jay Black, curator of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

Dallas never really knew one of its most famous athletes for reasons both plain and complicated.

Whatever the story, it’s up to Banks’ hometown to make it right, and soon.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/columnists/kevin-sherrington/20131119-sherrington-why-sadly-ernie-banks---mr.-cub---is-almost-anonymous-in-his-hometown-of-dallas.ece

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