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Giants’ Tony Watson embraces special connection with civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.

SCOTTSDALE — “We Shall Overcome” reads the headstone at Rose Hill Cemetery in Shenandoah, Iowa. “Thomas E. Offenburger, 1934-1986.” The marker is a reminder for San Francisco Giants reliever Tony Watson and his family of the small role his great uncle played in the civil rights movement. “It’s a piece of family history that everyone’s […]

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