Horace Clarke dies at 81: Face of losing era was ‘happy’ to be Yankee

The voice on the telephone had a pleasing lilt to it, a melodic “Hellooooo!” dripping out of the receiver. One thing Horace Clarke wanted you to know before you ever asked the only question he ever seemed to hear was this: “I am happy, my friend,” he said that afternoon, winter of 2004. “I played...

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