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Recruits fill gaps at nation's powerhouse programs

By Aaron Fitt
Baseball America

Thursday, October 19, 2006

When Mark McCormick and Ryan Lamotta arrived on Baylor's campus as the jewels of a promising 2002 recruiting class, Bears coach Steve Smith felt like he got the players he wanted out of the state of Texas for the first time. "Then we went through a couple years there coming off the basketball stuff that really, really hurt us in the state," Smith said. "There was so much negative publicity around basketball, it really did affect us instate." He's referring, of course, to the 2003 murder of Bay ...

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