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Kirk Gibson's Home Run Ball Is Still Gone, Probably Forever - The
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Kirk Gibson Home Run Bat Sells for $575,912
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MLB -- Inside Kirk Gibson's World Series home run 30 years later - ESPN
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MLB -- Inside Kirk Gibson's World Series home run 30 years later - ESPN
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Kirk Gibson relives the 1988 World Series Homerun by Scott McKeever - Issuu
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Downey: Unsafe at home plate
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The Hunt For Bobby Thomson's Miracle, 1951 $3 Million Home Run Baseball
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MLB -- Inside Kirk Gibson's World Series home run 30 years later - ESPN
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It could have changed NFL forever: the day the Royals drafted Elway and Marino, MLB
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Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run a decade ago, so let's celebrate how absurd that was
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