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Fitzgerald also announced that he has founded a nonprofit group to help further the development of Irish youth baseball and the Irish
National Baseball Team. The organisation is called "The Baseball United Foundation" and is focused on making the game of baseball accessible to communities where the
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After winning the Critic's Choice Award at the 2006 Baseball Film
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