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September 9, 1919 – The late Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder is born in Steubenville. A television commentator, he was fired in 1988 when he said slave owners bred big black women to big black men to get big black kids and that’s why blacks were better athletes. He claimed to have bet $10,000 at 17-to-one odds that Truman would beat Dewey in 1948. He was born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos and is buried in Union Cemetery in Steubenville.
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