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Baseball America weekend preview

By Will Kimmey
Baseball America

Friday, May 12, 2006

EMMAZING BURRISS It's not hard to figure out that Emmanuel Burriss has a passion for baseball. Just look at the apartment he shares with Kent State teammate Will Vazquez. "Our living room is a batting cage," said Burriss, a junior shortstop. "We used to have a net up, but we took that down. So there are Wiffle balls all over. Sometimes you find them in the dishwasher." When Burriss and Vazquez aren't working on their swings, they're bouncing tennis balls off the floor and walls to work on sh ...

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