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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,613 posts) Mon Apr 6, 2020, 11:51 AM Apr 2020

28-year-old JFK at Fenway with Ted Williams, Eddie Pellegrini, Hank Greenberg, this month 1946:

28-year-old JFK at Fenway with Ted Williams, Eddie Pellegrini, Hank Greenberg, this month 1946: #JFKL

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28-year-old JFK at Fenway with Ted Williams, Eddie Pellegrini, Hank Greenberg, this month 1946: (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 OP

John Jr. had his fathers facial bone structure and Boomerproud Apr 2020 #1

Great photo the year I was born Submariner Apr 2020 #2

Boomerproud

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1. John Jr. had his fathers facial bone structure and

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 12:10 PM

Apr 2020

Jackie's coloring. This was a year before JFK collapsed in London and almost died on the voyage home. He had been misdianosed with leukemia while in college.

Submariner

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2. Great photo the year I was born

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2020, 09:43 AM

Apr 2020

and 25 years earlier my Grampy was JFK's barber. He said JFK was nudgy toddler making it difficult to trim his moving head.

And slugger Ted William's was my hero. I even got the prized and coveted Ted Williams baseball card just before he retired. I must have eaten a half ton of bubble gum before finally getting that card.

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