Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat-clutching high school principal whose get-tough methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home Tuesday after a long-term illness, The Associated Press reported. He was 82.

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Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat-clutching high school principal whose get-tough methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home Tuesday after a long-term illness, The Associated Press reported. He was 82.
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