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LARGE AND IN CHARGE

By Buster Olney

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

She heard her son cry but she was afraid to touch him, this eight-pound boy with the 22-letter name and 21-inch body. Carsten Charles Sabathia II stared up at her with the biggest eyes she had ever seen, eyes that she sensed were loaded with expectations. Of her. It was fear that she felt, fear that she would hold him the wrong way, fear of what she did not know how to do. What if she made a mistake? What if she hurt him? What if she couldn't help this baby man with the glaze of dark hair and ...

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