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Phelbert Lawson, 81, American baseball player.
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|Phelbert Russell Lawson (October 22, 1919 – January 5, 2001) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s.
A native of Washington, Virginia, Lawson played for the Cleveland Buckeyes in 1945. He died in Canton, Ohio in 2001 at age 81.
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