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Paul Sullivan: Longtime Braves executive Bill Bartholomay looks back on a changing game

Bartholomay was strolling through the cramped visitors clubhouse at Wrigley Field on Monday, stopping by lockers, shaking players' hands and asking how they were doing.

You don't see many executives in clubhouses any more, but the 89-year-old chairman emeritus of the Braves seemed right at home.

Bartholomay may be a dinosaur in baseball, but he stays young by staying connected to the game he loves.

A Chicago insurance executive who has been in the game for 56 years, Bartholomay bought the

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