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Baseball is Perkins' pick

By Ronnie Flores
ESPNRISE.com

Sunday, August 9, 2009

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Area Code Texas Rangers outfielder Kendrick Perkins, a 6-foot-2, 215-pound bulldozer from La Porte (Texas), recently made a verbal commitment to the Texas A&M baseball coaching staff and will forgo his senior year of football. "This [baseball] is where my heart is," Perkins said. "There are all these opportunities opening up. I like baseball because it's more relaxing, more of a mental game. At any moment, you don't know what is going to happen." Perkins was a star on the ...

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