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Former Dodgers First Baseman Dies

Tim Harkness' career with the Dodgers began far from Los Angeles. The team was still based in Brooklyn when the Philadelphia Phillies acquired shortstop Chico Fernandez for Harkness, a first baseman playing for the Dodgers' farm team in Miami, and four other players on April 5, 1957.

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