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Article: Hillman: Media reports are false.
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- Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2006
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Byline: Stephen Ellsesser
Oct. 7--Trey Hillman just wants to worry about baseball.
Media reports coming out of the United States have linked the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters skipper with Hillman's hometown Texas Rangers, who fired manager Buck Showalter this week, and all of a sudden, Hillman was under the gun.
"There have been reports that I was offered the job, that I have taken the job, and they are not true," Hillman said. "One Japanese report said something about a secret under-the-table deal, and there is no substance to it."
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