Larry Bradford (December 21, 1949 – September 11, 1998) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

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. He played for the

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."Larry Bradford Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-23. He died of a heart attack while visiting the Braves team offices at

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at age 48 in 1998.

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1949 births 1998 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Atlanta Braves players African-American baseball players Baseball players from Chicago 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{US-baseball-pitcher-1940s-stub