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Article: Pure cleanup hitter Howard helps baseball tidy up image: Phillies slugger, coming off 58-homer season, stresses natural approach.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2007
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Byline: Dan Connolly
Feb. 26--CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Ryan Howard is not thinking about becoming the fresh new face of baseball -- or, for that matter, the player Major League Baseball hopes will be its poster boy for now and the future.
If it happens, fine. If not, it apparently won't bother the mild-mannered Howard. "I haven't really focused on it like that or thought about it that way," said Howard, 27, the Philadelphia Phillies' first baseman and 2006 National League Most Valuable Player. "I've heard different aspects about being the face of this or the face of that, stuff of that magnitude. But I've never really thought about it that way. I just ...