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Jess Elster is Dead

Published: Jan. 6, 2014, 5 a.m.

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Jess Elster was a symbol of semi-pro baseball. He came to Grand Rapids in 1904 and played his first season as a catcher the next year. When he died in December of 1950, he had been "Mr. Baseball" of the city for almost 50  years.

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