To St. Louis
Harrison Bader says goodbye to the St. Louis Cardinals: “The support I felt from the fans in St. Louis, it always meant the world to me.”
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Harrison Bader says goodbye to the St. Louis Cardinals: “The support I felt from the fans in St. Louis, it always meant the world to me.”
Four little letters. That’s all it was. Four letters, typed in all-caps, at the end of a tweet. Spur of the moment.
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