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    Nice story on Mario Soto

    Kudos to Sun Deck poster HalMorrisRules for finding this.

    The day after I saw the movie I started looking at this Mario Soto card. I hadn’t looked at it since childhood, and if I’d done so before seeing Sugar I probably would have taken note of his confident expression and paired it with my knowledge that within a few years Soto would be among the best pitchers in the game. I would have assumed that Soto was simply blessed with a gift, and he knew it, and doubt or pain never entered into his inevitable rise to the top. But then I flipped over this card yesterday and saw that the first line of statistics contained no statistics at all but the capital letters “On Disabled List.” I thought of Sugar limping around with a foot injury, banished from the game, watching from the stands as his team played. I imagined Mario Soto as a seventeen-year-old, unable to pitch. The following season, in Eugene, Oregon, he finally could take the mound, but just a little, 5 games and 30 innings pitched, suggesting that he was still struggling with injuries. (In later years, Soto shied away to a great extent from throwing any breaking pitches, fearing that doing so would cause another arm injury.) Besides physical problems, Soto had another less visible kind of difficulty that first season.
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    Re: Nice story on Mario Soto

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    Kudos to Sun Deck poster HalMorrisRules for finding this.



    complete article:
    http://cardboardgods.net/2010/03/15/mario-soto/

    WOW!

    Great article, Thanks for sharing.

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    Re: Nice story on Mario Soto

    Good stuff.


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