Ralph Francis Boyle was an outfielder

Outfielder

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 in Major League Baseball

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 who played from through for the Boston Braves

Atlanta Braves

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 (1929–30) and Brooklyn Dodgers

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 (1933–35). Listed at 5' 11", 170 lb., Boyle batted and threw left handed. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

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, he attended Xavier University.

Boyle also managed for the Muskegon Lassies

Muskegon Lassies

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 of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

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 during the 1944 season. Noted sports columnist Steve Rushin

Steve Rushin

- Early life :Rushin grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, the third in a family of five kids. "Beer has long been in my blood, and not just in the literal sense," he wrote. "My ancestors were much practiced at naming bars." In 1946, his father's father, Jack Rushin, opened a saloon on Market Street...

is his great-nephew.

Boyle died at his homeland of Cincinnati at the age of 70.

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