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Bill Baker’s 1980 Olympic jersey and hockey stick, 2004. Baker, who was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and played hockey for the University of Minnesota, was part of the "Minnesota Miracle," in which the US men's hockey team (twelve of whom were originally from Minnesota) defeated the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Photograph by Flickr user public.resource.org.
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