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Joe Mauer's Derby power muse

Monday, July 13, 2009

There was a day many years ago when Jim O'Neill had to try to coax Joe Mauer into trying to power the baseball. So a few days ago, O'Neill was surprised by a request from Mauer. O'Neill, 52, the longtime hockey and baseball coach at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minn., was at home when the Twins catcher called and asked him to throw to him in the Home Run Derby. Well, Mauer didn't really ask O'Neill. "He put the pressure on me," O'Neill said Sunday afternoon, chuckling. Mauer tol ...

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