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17 Inches
Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt and a string around his neck from which home plate hung – a full-size, stark-white home plate. Near the end of his presentation, this is what he said…