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Sherrill's long road to big leagues a successful one

Monday, July 21, 2008

George Sherrill once worked at a baseball facility in Memphis, but didn't like it because he had to watch somebody else play the game he loves. He hated the weeks he spent working for UPS in Nashville in the winter of 1999-2000, with the conveyor belt dropping boxes against his shins as he struggled to keep up. "It was the Christmas rush," he recalled the other day. "I kept stacking them in the truck the wrong way." So he quit, because even though Sherrill wasn't drafted out of Austin Peay and ...

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