... or a crisp double to the gap. No, this called for a conflagration. And the weirder the better. "My first thought was, 'I pray to God that guy isn't a Cub fan,'" Marlins pitcher Carl Pavano said. Although the possibility exists that the fan was a Marlins' plant, an agitator, anyone who has spent any time in this city recognized the situation for what it was ... ...

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... most daring moves by playing Major League baseball. The amount of pain and suffering this man went through was so harsh that I don't know how he was able to play. Carl Erskine said,"Maybe I see Jackie differently. You say he broke the color line. But I say he didn't break anything. Jackie was a healer. He came to rectify a wrong, to heal a sore ... ...

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