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Deion Sanders' thoughts still heard years later

By Buster Olney

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Lost in the fog of the A-Rod-palooza, I forgot a sacred blog tradition -- to kick off spring training by revisiting a story from many years ago. I don't collect autographs, and the one souvenir baseball I have on my desk contains a full sentence rather than a signature. The black print is all but faded, but the message remains indelible 16 years later. Deion Sanders wanted to kick my ass. In 1989, I was just out of college and worked for the Nashville Banner covering the Nashville Sounds, t ...

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