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The
Cardinals sold Denny Whitlier's contract to the Boston Braves on June 9, 1946
reuniting him with his favorite manager, Billy Southworth. He was with Boston on
Opening Day in 1947 when the Braves played the Brooklyn Dodgers in a game at
Ebbets Field that has been as celebrated as any opener in the history of the
sport. Litwhiler went 0-for-3 and scored a run, exactly the same line of box
score numbers that were achieved by the game’s true star Brooklyn first baseman Jackie Robinson, and his debut in the major
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