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On the recordMay 18, 2011
Madam President, I will just make a very brief comment. I am not a great baseball fan. I am a baseball fan. I am sure there are better fans than me. I have followed baseball all of my life, starting as a little boy. I have listened to baseball games, and I would have loved to have met Harmon Killebrew. He was a man who, before anyone ever suggested steroids, was so powerful. He holds 10th or 11th place in the history of baseball for hitting home runs. According to what everyone says about him, he was such a nice man in addition to that.
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Harry Reid
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