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Craig Biggio has won three straight Gold Gloves as the best defensive second baseman in the league. He has started for the National League in the last three All-Star games, and he's the only person ever to be both an All-Star catcher and second baseman...
...walks for a .426 on-base percentage. Despite playing in the cavernous Astrodome, Bags was second in the league in both homers and RBIs with 43 taters and 135 of the latter. He also had the first ever 30-30 season for a true first baseman with 31 thefts...
...asylum, Irabu was welcomed by his new teammates. "Hey, what's up, man?" third baseman Charlie Hayes said upon meeting Irabu. "He's a big old boy," said Cecil Fielder, the Yankees' gargantuan slugger. Indeed, Irabu is 6 ft. 3 in. and 240 lbs., wears a size 52 jacket and pants with a 40-in. waist. In his monthlong tour of the minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu...
Indeed the list of All-Ivy players on this team--Ivy League Player of the Year Brian Ralph, Pitcher of the Year Frank Hogan, first baseman Peter Albers (first team), sophomore pitcher Andrew Duffell and sophomore right fielder Andrew Huling (second team) and junior designated hitter Brett Vankoski, sophomore pitcher Donald Jamieson and sophomore catcher Jason Keck (honorable mention)--is hardly distinguishable from some of the omissions...
...twist of this story is that it need not end here. Harvard graduates five players: Albers, Hogan, reserve third baseman Mike Hochanadel, reserve catcher Craig Wilke and pitcher Bart Brush...