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Clark Griffith - player, manager, and owner

April 26, 2010 – The Society for American Baseball Research is a great organization and one of the wonderful projects they have going on is the Baseball Biography Project. One of the biographies they have completed is about the Old Fox, Clark Calvin Griffith who was born on November 20, 1869 and passed away on October 27, 1955. Griffith is the only man in major league history to serve as player, manager, and owner for at least 20 years each. Take a few minutes and read about this baseball legend here.