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Column: A father and son playing catch, and a championship in the making

Call it something of a father-and-son rite of passage. A father and his boy throwing a baseball to one another. “He was always ready to field some balls” after work, Jack McGinley says about his father, John McGinley, who worked as a foreman in a paint factory in Blackwood, New Jersey, a little town about 12 miles east of Philadelphia, or “east of Philly” as Jack McGinley says.

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