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Ultimately, ticket sales continued to dwindle, radio rights were not longer being purchased, and
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Triplets in their third year. No other major league team signed on and the Triplets dropped from the Eastern League to the NY-P league, where they were picked up by the
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704:(1954) 1960 World Series Most Valuable Player
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1119:: outfielder for the
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