[unable to retrieve full-text content]It was, as Major League Baseball careers go, brief — only seven games with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1955. But that short-lived tenure was a major part of the mystique surrounding Paul Charles “Jake” Martin Jr., a promising pitcher from Fayette City who died Oct. 11 at age 79 in San Diego, where he had lived for nearly 50 years.

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]“I don’t think his heart was really into it,” Rupert Martinko of Fallowfield said of his cousin’s disposition toward baseball. “Yes, he had the (arm) injury, but he didn’t see sports as a priority in his life.”

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