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Roy Sievers of the Washington Senators, left, with the Yankees’ Mickey Mantle in 1957. Playing for the Senators from 1954 to 1959, Sievers was a favorite of Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
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Roy Sievers
Died on April 3, 2017 at age 90
Sievers won the American League’s first Rookie of the Year Award playing for the 1949 St. Louis Browns and became one of baseball’s leading power hitters of the 1950s with the original Washington Senators.
Notable Deaths 2017
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