By Tim Kurkjian

Friday, February 15, 2008

Buck Showalter's little black book is now a big black binder. It contains notations on the major and minor league players he has seen the last 21/2 years, which is, precisely, all of them. This "cheat sheet,'' as Showalter calls it, was lugged to eight countries and 150 ballparks, and what isn't in the binder is logged permanently in his head. "My wife says I can't remember names of people I was introduced to five minutes later, but I can remember pitch sequences from three years ago,'' he says. ...

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