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Ozzie Smiith had to be evacuated amid Napa Valley fires

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Garry Templeton and Ozzie Smith forever will be linked as Cardinals shortstops who were traded for each other before the 1982 season. They were together again in the early morning hours on Monday when the two were celebrities at a golf tournament conducted by Pro Football Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott in California’s Napa Valley.

At 12:30 a.m., Templeton, who had an adjoining villa to that of Smith and fellow baseball Hall of Famer Eddie Murray at the Mayacama resort in Sonoma, knocked on the door and said, “There’s a fire. We’ve got to get out of here.