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Behind the story: Adrian Gonzalez

By Jorge Arangure Jr.
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, June 29, 2009

This article refers to a story in the July 13 issue of ESPN The Magazine, "Stranded at Home," about Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzalez. In my earliest childhood recollections, David Gonzalez -- who had burly forearms with hair as thick as sagebrush and eyebrows as broad as push brooms -- was the largest Mexican man I'd ever seen. David, much like my father, was a baseball man, which is to say he had played the game his entire young life and then had a difficult time walking away from ...

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