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The Perfect Closer

By By Tim Keown

Tuesday, September 3, 2002

You can purchase a new, clean cap just like this one at the souvenir stand. Anybody with $25 and a head can wear one. But a new, clean cap says nothing about its owner, nothing beyond simple allegiance or sense of fashion. This cap, though, the cap in question, sitting on the top shelf of No.38's locker -- about head-high -- well, this cap is significant. It's ripped and stained and misshapen. The sweat marks start near the bill and work their way upward, like topographical lines. This cap has ...

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