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November 1947

Mail Call for All A.A.s at Home Or Abroad

He Didn't Strike Out

"The count was three and two on me," the umpire explained. The man who said this had formerly been a professional baseball umpire but through drink had ended up as an inmate at Wallkill Prison. He was telling the A.A. Group that alcohol had been responsible for this count on him but that after coming to prison and finding A.A. he felt that he could not be struck out. That man has since been released from Wallkill and is speaking before groups several nights a week. Through A.A. he found the means to arrest his alcoholism and once more faces life without an alcoholic fog clouding his vision. This is typical of the cases of other men who have left here and are succeeding due to the help of A.A.

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