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Ex-Yankee Linz, key player in '64 harmonica flap, dies at 81

by Ben Walker
| December 12, 2020 6:08 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Yankees infielder Phil Linz, who knocked a Game 7 home run off Bob Gibson in the 1964 World Series but made even more noise by hitting a few sour notes on his harmonica, has died. He was 81.

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