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Originally Posted by Manny Laureano 
Second, Dizzy's cheeks, when he played, were the result of a medical condition that developed over time. When Dizzy was first coming up he looked nothing like he did eventually. Find some pictures of Diz when he was about 21 and you'll see he looked like most other players you'll see. He played as beautifully as he did in spite of his cheeks, not because of them. That's the larger point.
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So was the medical condition from puffing his cheecks, or did it just happen that he had a medical condition which made his cheeks bigger?