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William Malcolm Dickey was a Major League Baseball catcher and manager. He played his entire 19-year baseball career with the New York Yankees .... During Dickey's playing career, the Yankees went to the World Series nine times, winning eight championships. Dickey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. Dickey was born in Bastrop, Louisiana. He was one of seven children born to John and Laura Dickey. The Dickeys moved to Kensett, Arkansas, where John Dickey worked as a brakeman for Missouri Pacific Railroad. John Dickey had played in a semi-professional league in Memphis. Bill's older brother, Gus, was a second baseman and pitcher in the East Arkansas Semipro League, while his older brother, George, was an MLB catcher. Dickey broke into the majors in 1928 and played his first full season in 1929. It was his first of ten seasons out of eleven with a .300+ batting average.
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Louisiana ; Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Louisiana is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by... population is East Baton Rouge Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U.S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.
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