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Leather Goods

By by Tim Kurkjian

Thursday, August 15, 2002

We are here to defend the player hailed with faint praise as a good glove man. We are here to salute the plays dismissed as merely routine, and the fielders who make them routinely. We are here to defend things like cutting off the ball in the gap, keeping the double play in order, reaching for the short hop instead of sitting back for the in-betweener and so many other baseball plays that can't be easily measured or quantified with statistics. Are we being a bit ... defensive? You bet we are, ...

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