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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
It had every possible component, every conceivable baseball cliche: The aloof superstar (Eddie Murray), the hometown boy (Cal Ripken Jr.), the celebrity (Jim Palmer), the class clown (Rick Dempsey), the Everyman (Scott McGregor), the lovable oddball (John Lowenstein), the dry wit (Mike Flanagan), the dirtdog (Rich Dauer), the class act (Ken Singleton), the misguided talent (Dennis Martinez),...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
But often, they ceded the glamour roles to others.A rookie, Mike Boddicker, pitched complete-game gems to pull the Orioles out of 1-0 holes in the Championship Series and World Series. A career reserve, Tito Landrum, smacked the pennant-clinching homer. And a catcher who was better known for his slip-sliding hijinks during rain delays than for his potency with a bat walked off as the...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
But often, they ceded the glamour roles to others.A rookie, Mike Boddicker, pitched complete-game gems to pull the Orioles out of 1-0 holes in the Championship Series and World Series. A career reserve, Tito Landrum, smacked the pennant-clinching homer. And a catcher who was better known for his slip-sliding hijinks during rain delays than for his potency with a bat walked off as the...
