Chuck Hildebrandt of Chicago holds the book "Baseball's Zaniest Stars" on Dec. 10, 2024, which was due back at the Warren, Mich., library on Dec. 4, 1974.
DETROIT (AP) -- Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library.
The answer: You can keep it -- and no fine.
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