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Second calling became first sport for Lindsey

By Jim Bailey

Posted: January 29, 2012 at 3:33 a.m.

Elmer “B” Lindsey is joined in this 1960 photograph by future St. Louis catcher Tim McCarver (left) as the two were getting ready for the Memphis Chicks’ season opener. Lindsey, who chose baseball over football, also played with Cardinals player and broadcaster Mike Shannon at Tulsa.
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Credit: Special to the Democrat Gazette
 Elmer “B” Lindsey is joined in this 1960 photograph by future St. Louis catcher Tim McCarver (left) as the two were getting ready for the Memphis Chicks’ season opener. Lindsey, who chose baseball over football, also played with Cardinals player and broadcaster Mike Shannon at Tulsa.

This is the fifth in a series profiling the 11 individuals and one team that will be inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 3 at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock.

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Sports, Pages 21 on 01/29/2012

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