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Still throwing the hook

By Mike Suchan
ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Editor's note: This is part one of a series. PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Doug Creek's eyes misted up; a rare show of emotion for the rather stoic baseball pro turned pro fisherman. He choked up a bit as he thought about how he almost lost his wife, Allison, and two children, Colton, 4, and Aubrie, 3, to preeclampsia, a rapidly progressing disorder that affects 5 to 8 percent of all pregnancies and is responsible for "killing more women than breast cancer," he says. "It takes about three babies a ...

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