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Adam Henig’s book “Baseball’s Outcasts: The Story of Ron LeFlore” tells the former Tiger’s life story from Detroit's streets to the dugouts.

After his notorious adolescence on the east side of Detroit in the 1960s, Ron LeFlore made national news in the ’70s as his hometown team’s unlikeliest of center fielders. And after a brief, but stori...

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