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Article: Vladimir Guerrero: baseball's quiet super talent: Expos all-around performer excels on the field despite limited publicity with Montreal's small fan base.(Montreal Expos outfielder)
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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PUBLICLY, AT LEAST, VLADIMIR Guerrero is a man of very few words. Recently, he spoke, not at great length, but enough to leave some impressions.
Guerrero is a great hitter, a tremendous all-around talent but, for the purposes of media discussion, something of an enigma. He speaks to the press infrequently. He is obviously very comfortable playing baseball, but he is not at all comfortable answering questions about playing baseball. He is not comfortable speaking English. And he plays, after all, for the Montreal Expos, a fact that does not exactly shine a worldwide spotlight on his considerable talents.
But last spring, Guerrero agreed to speak to a ...