Article: HE'S A KEEPER DODGERS WOULD BE WELL-SERVED TO RE-SIGN GARCIAPARRA.(Sports)

Byline: KEVIN MODESTI

When Nomar Garciaparra hobbled out of the third-base dugout to pinch- hit on the last night of the Dodgers' season, the fans shook the stadium with what might have been the loudest cheers of the year. Those were 50,000 voices starting the first important conversation of this Dodgers winter.

Garciaparra began 2006 as a necessary gamble, a battle-scarred mercenary joining his third franchise in three years, one of the veterans hired as six-month bridges to the young stars of the Dodgers' future.

He ended it as the surprising face of an unexpectedly satisfying team, doing all the things that demonstrate commitment and win over a skeptical ...

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