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Available is an original sports page that came from an August 23, 1919 edition of a Chicago American newspaper. The page features a combination of illustrations and sports article profiling the Detroit Tigers young outfielder, Harry Heilmann. This was one of a series of similar features by Walsh titled "Big League Yarns"

Harry Edwin Heilmann, nicknamed "Slug", was an American baseball player and radio announcer. He played professional baseball for 19 years between 1913 and 1932, including 17 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers (1914, 1916–1929) and Cincinnati Reds (1930, 1932). He was a play-by-play announcer for the Tigers for 17 years from 1934 to 1950.

Walter "Christy" Walsh was an American writer, cartoonist, and sports agent. He is best known for acting as Knute Rockne and Babe Ruth's agent, and is considered to be the first sports agent in baseball.

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