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Afternoon Quote by Hank Aaron

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” quote by Hank Aaron — Download Open image

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”

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