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Heavy Hitter

By Dan Le Batard
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, March 21, 2000

He is the most powerful man in baseball. Even though he is but a boy. He owns a shortstop's glove. A first baseman's bat. A model's smile. A prince's style. A starving man's hunger. A lottery winner's future. And a 2-year-old's why-why-why curiosity. The most powerful man in baseball plays cards and smokes cigars in a Four Seasons suite with Michael Jordan. He can walk into any Armani store and take whatever he wishes for free because of a deal he has with the fashion designer. He'll drive ...

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