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Everyone in Lakeland, Fla., knew Bill Henry as an old major-league pitcher – at church, around the golf course and certainly at home. Why, even his wife thought he was a former Cincinnati Reds pitcher.
But it turns out the Lakeland man was not the Bill Henry who played major-league ball, and the tales he spun are unraveling a week after his death following a heart attack. The former reliever by the same name is alive and well in Texas – stunned someone had claimed his accomplishments for decades.
“I really can’t understand why a man would do something like that,” said the real pitcher, who learned of the hoax after The Associated Press ran a short obituary.
