A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Legend In His Own Minefield
Speaking of Tiresome

Speaking of Tiresome

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John Mendelssohn
Nov 04, 2010
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If you’d been Pat Burrell, and you’d struck out 11 of the 13 times you’d gone to bat over the course of the four games in which you played, would you have felt right about jumping up and down jubilantly with your fellow San Francisco Giants on Monday night at the moment they won the World Series? I’m not at all sure I would; I’d have been worried that a…

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