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Thome injects life into previously hapless Phillies

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Monday, February 17, 2003

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The hulking stranger poked his head through the clubhouse door of the no-longer-moribund Philadelphia Phillies early one spring-training morning. The hulking stranger looked suspiciously like Jim Thome. "Hey," a voice said from across the room, "who's that guy?" Mike Lieberthal looked up from untangling the straps on his new shin guards. "I don't know," Lieberthal said. "But I heard he's got power." Good scouting report. He knows -- we all know -- this man, James Howard ...

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