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Article: Greetings from FLORIDA; Live from Fort Myers: a daily update by our staffers; `All Day' is OK with Gardenhire.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 20, 2008
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Byline: La Velle E. Neal III; Staff Writer
Fort Myers, Fla. -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire showed up at the ballpark on Tuesday with an autographed Adrian Peterson Vikings jersey, and a reporter couldn't hold back his surprise.
"They asked me [last year] who we should take in the draft, I said Adrian Peterson," Gardenhire said. "That's not frontrunning. He played at [Oklahoma]. I grew up an OU fan. He's from Texas. I went to the University of Texas. So I got all bases covered."
Gardenhire said he lost a bidding war for a jersey recently at a fundraiser for the Concordia (St. Paul) baseball team.
"It got up to $1,000 and a guy jumped ...
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