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Frankford defies expectations in Namnun's first season

By Gordie Jones
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Monday, April 13, 2009

PHILADELPHIA -- Practice would begin in three days, just as February was turning into March, so Frankford High baseball coach Juan Namnun felt compelled on a recent Friday afternoon to visit his team's home field. It is tucked into a residential neighborhood in the northeast part of town, across the street from the Pioneers' football stadium and a block or two from the school building itself. He looked out past the left-center-field fence, to a house on the far side of the thoroughfare running ...

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