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Everything has its price

By Darren Rovell
ESPN.com

Monday, August 30, 2004

The crowd of 5,500 people cheered as Marc Turndorf stepped to the plate for his first professional career at-bat. The St. Paul Saints outfielder entered the game in the sixth inning as a pinch runner and batted in the bottom of the eighth against 6-foot-1 Lincoln Mincks, a 23-year-old pitcher for the Sioux Falls Canaries. Yes, this is independent minor league baseball, where sometimes anything seems to go. Still, how many teams would think seriously about signing the 5-8 Turndorf, a 35-year-ol ...

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