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Names in the News - Feb. 9, 1988

Leon Baxter, 18, Tennessee freshman football player, died after being hospitalized since Jan. 28 when he became ill during a winter workout. Lisa McNeal, a spokeswoman for the University of Tennessee Medical Center, said Baxter was diagnosed as suffering from severe liver and partial kidney failure.

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