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Fields shines after early struggles

By Jon Mahoney
ESPNRISE.com

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Daniel Fields couldn't have imagined a worse start to his varsity baseball career. As a freshman at University of Detroit Jesuit, Fields went 0 for his first 10 with the Cubs. That's 0 for his first 10 games, not at-bats. Fields was pressing, and it took some sound advice from his older brother, Aaron, to turn it around. Aaron, who was then a starting senior shortstop at U of D Jesuit, believed his brother was trying too hard to prove he belonged on varsity. So while working with Daniel after ...

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