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A night to celebrate stars

By Buster Olney

Monday, January 26, 2009

New York's baseball writers dinner is an enormous event, with the major award winners on hand to accept their trophies. Willie Weinbaum, a colleague of ours at ESPN, was there Sunday night and collected some notes and quotes: Sunday's 86th annual awards dinner of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America was a harmonious evening perhaps best captured when American League MVP Dustin Pedroia of the Red Sox thanked the New York-partisan audience for the absence of booin ...

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