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not if you have nine", and that the
Pirates needed to recruit more whites for the team. The Pirates' owner, John Galbreath, described the quote as "very unfortunate", and denied that the statement reflected his beliefs or his son Dan's. The Pirates' third baseman, Bill Madlock, who was African-American, commented that Haak "told the truth...But it has been said before, so I can't understand why it is such a big thing."
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Virginia Edholm in Manassas Virginia on June 16, 1939, and had two daughters, Betty Olson and Marjorie Archuleta. The couple later divorced. Haak married his second wife, Crystal Tate, in Yuma, Arizona on January 12, 1954, after he spotted her sitting in a box seat in Hollywood’s Gilmore
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Haak stunned baseball early in 1982, when he was quoted in the
Associated Press as saying the Pirates' attendance woes were due to white fans being unattracted to a team with a high percentage of non-white players. Haak stated that "the people won't come out if you have too many blacks on a team,
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Haak was the first recipient of the Scout of the Year award in 1984 in recognition of his lifetime of achievement. He left
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Clemente's success inspired Haak, and the Pirate front office, to take an aggressive role in scouting Latin
America and the Caribbean. According to his obituary, Haak's signings included
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during the 1930s. According to the Bird interview, a badly injured throwing arm ended Haak's playing career, but he was still in the game as traveling secretary of the Cards'
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world championship teams. "We thank God for him", Sanguillén was quoted as saying in Haak's Times obituary. "He's opened the door for us."
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455:Al McBean
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