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May 4, 1959
SI's Walter Bingham suggested that if the Yankees were to offer 28-year-old right-hander Bob Turley, the Game 7 hero of the 1958 World Series, at auction for $500,000, "there would be a stampede of general managers, checkbooks in hand."
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