Don Richard Ashburn

(1927-1997) born at Tilden, Madison County. Professional baseball player, broadcaster, columnist, known for defensive ability as an outfielder with a career batting average of .308 from 1948 to 1962, he established several National League records; inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, May 28, 1978, pp. 6-8 and Philadelphia Daily News, September 10, 1997 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 39-40 and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 16-18.

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