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Baldwin became one of the youngest executives in professional sports when he became a founder and partner of the WHA's Boston-based New
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Baldwin's specialty was buying franchises with very little of his own money invested. For example, his actual cash investment in the
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with coach Jack Kelley's team winning the 1973 AVCO World Cup
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