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Oldest living major leaguer, 100, still going strong

By Tim Kurkjian
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, June 9, 2008

Baseball is a game of big, round, meaningful numbers. Bill Werber knows about that: He got exactly 200 hits in the 1934 season and here he is 74 years later, still around to talk about it. Werber, the oldest living major leaguer, turns 100 years old on Friday. "It appears," he said from a senior housing facility in North Carolina, "that I'm going to live past 100." Werber played with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, with Jimmie Foxx and many others. He played for Connie Mack. He played on a world ch ...

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