Phil Niekro Signing an Autograph

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At the age of twenty-eight, Phil Niekro was a late bloomer on the pitcher's mound. But he made up for lost time by pitching until he was forty-eight years old.

Photograph by Jim Accordino

Phil Niekro Signing an Autograph

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