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The maddening pace of perfection

By Buster Olney

Friday, July 24, 2009

Nobody had to tell Mark Buehrle to work so fast or to pitch his innings with the frantic pace of someone running to the bathroom during a commercial break. He has done it this way since he first started pitching, his father said on Thursday night. "I think he started doing it because he loves baseball so much," John Buehrle said a few hours after Buehrle planted his hands on his head in disbelief. "He would play in tournaments as a kid, and sometimes there would be three or four or five games i ...

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