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The new players in camp slowly got acquainted with their teammates. They were a diverse bunch from all parts of the United States. Ballplayers of the 1920s were more educated than their counterparts from previous eras. Each season, more and more players were coming from the college ranks instead of working their way up in the minor leagues. There were fewer stories of country boys who had never seen a big city before or ridden on a train. On the Cleveland roster there was pitcher Walter Miller, a civil engineer, Bibb Falk, an expert in the stock market and active investor, and Luke Sewell, who had his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and was just one semester away from completing his master’s degree. Ken Holloway owned a ranch in the southwest. Willis Hudlin built ham radios for amateur operators around the country. The modern baseball player was beginning to emerge, a much different figure than the older generation of hard-drinking and hard-fighting men who shocked the crowds with their colorful language.