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He enjoyed 171 wins in 420 games at the helm, of which 17 came in his first period in charge between September 2012, when he succeeded Andy Thorn, and February 2013, when Robins left to join Huddersfield.

“The baseball cap is, if anything, the American uniform,” said John Thorn, the official MLB historian since 2011.

Others told more gruesome stories, including one worker who developed an infection and required two surgeries after his hand was impaled by a thorn, and another worker who was struck from behind by a golf cart as she walked to the bathroom, resulting in permanent back pain.

He could still be a thorn in the side of both unionist opponents and former nationalist allies.

“Though the majority of our store locations are profitable, we intend to move forward with a more focused footprint,” Big Lots President and Chief Executive Bruce Thorn said in a statement Monday.