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Purke using skills and intellect to win

By Matt Remsberg
ESPN RISE Magazine

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Just about everything the state's best prep pitcher needed to know about baseball he learned on a 90-mile stretch of East Texas highway. Sure, Klein (Texas) senior Matt Purke has spent countless hours on the diamond mastering his seemingly effortless left-handed delivery and developing his nearly unhittable repertoire of pitches. But what separates the best from the rest isn't the nuts and bolts of pitching, it's the mental makeup of the pitcher. And Purke has logged more than 50,000 miles in ...

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