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Vizquel is baseball's forgotten iron man

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Because a player never knows when a career might end, especially once he's turned 40 years old, Omar Vizquel decided over the winter to hold a farewell tour. Only this tour wasn't of the major leagues, but of winter ball in his native Venezuela, where he hoped to play in each stadium and against every team in the league in which he started his career in 1984. Playing there -- the first time he played in the league in a decade or so -- provided Vizquel with frequent reminders of just how long a ...

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