Talk:Ralph Garr

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A fact from Ralph Garr appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 October 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Atlanta Braves negotiated exclusive rights with Warner Bros. Cartoons to use animated scenes of the Road Runner in honor of Ralph Garr?

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Arbitration case

Garr won one of baseball's early arbitration cases. This might be worth adding to the article; I am not familiar with the details, simply noticed this fact in the arbitrator's obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/nyregion/22schmertz.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries . Publius3 (talk) 17:35, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]