Article: BELTRE PREPARED TO PLAY THROUGH PAIN WRIST NEEDS SURGERY, BUT NOT FOR NOW.(Sports)

Article: HOT AUGUST NIGHTS FOR BELTRE ENIGMATIC THIRD BASEMAN HAS AGAIN FOUND HIS GROOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  August 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the Dodgers can do to convince Adrian Beltre that it is August all season long would do wonders for their playoff chances. Beltre has again salvaged a horrible offensive...second-half surge that seems inexplicable - to Beltre, his teammates and coaches, and everyone...

Article: WHEN IT COMES TO BELTRE, LET FREEDOM WANE.(Sports)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  September 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......having been an issue with Beltre. Still, even if you remove...that may have contributed to Beltre's sudden maturation. The birth...theory that the early-season pain from five bone spurs in Beltre's left ankle somehow were...Davis (.346 in 1962). In May, Beltre faced a decision that ...

Article: COMING OF AGE BELTRE'S GROWING PAINS HAVE MADE THE THIRD BASEMAN OF THE FUTURE THE STAR OF TODAY.(Sports)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  October 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Gulf Coast Indians. Then there was Adrian Beltre. At an age when hitters are considered advanced if they can hit a curveball, Beltre found himself in the majors, flailing...After only two full seasons in the minors, Beltre joined the Dodgers in June 1998 as their...

Article: Beltre makes 1st journey back to L.A.
Daily Breeze;  June 20, 2006 ;     538 words ...A lot will be different tonight when Adrian Beltre returns to Dodger Stadium. But nothing will be as different as Beltre himself. Beltre's final year in Los Angeles produced a breakthrough season in which he hit...

Article: BELTRE'S STAR HASN'T RISEN.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in baseball would suggest that Adrian Beltre, at the tender age of 23, is washed up...That much has never been in question. Beltre has been touted as a future star since...his brief career. In spring training, Beltre, fully recovered from a botched appendectomy...

Article: SPRING RITUAL FOR BELTRE: TROUBLES.(Sports)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 18, 2001 ;     644 words ......batting .290 with 85 RBI. Beltre was bulking up in his native...discomfort. So the first inkling Beltre had that the pain that kept piercing his abdomen...appendix ruptured in January. Beltre underwent an emergency appendectomy...I feel a lot better now,'' Beltre said as if to reassure ...

Article: FULL SWING AHEAD? THIS TIME, ADRIAN BELTRE DETERMINED TO START THE SEASON AS HOT AS HE FINISHES.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ......office once jokingly suggested that Adrian Beltre should be hypnotized and made to believe...Dodgers haven't tried in an attempt to get Beltre to produce offensively in the first halves...this time, the Dodgers profess hope that Beltre will start hitting in April and never...

Article: Beltre looks like his old self as Mariners cruise
Daily Breeze;  June 21, 2006 ;     521 words ......one chanted, "M-V-P, M-V-P," when Adrian Beltre came to the plate in the first inning...for a strike, another for a ball. Then Beltre jolted the next one into the right field...time he waved his bat in 2004. Sparked by Beltre's first-inning laser, the Seattle Mariners...

Article: Beltre a legit MVP candidate
New Haven Register;  September 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ...LOS ANGELES -- Adrian Beltre hears the chanting almost everywhere...heard 'round the baseball world: MVP. Beltre, the Dodgers' slugging third baseman...Those guys have always been up there," Beltre said. "I used to see their stats and...

Article: DODGERS NOTEBOOK: BELTRE STARTS TRAINING WITH A (PINKY) BANG.(SPORTS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 25, 1999 ;     491 words ......Brian Dohn Daily News Staff Writer Adrian Beltre's first big-league camp as the Dodgers...first full-squad workout, he was injured. Beltre slammed his right pinky finger in his...at the beginning of the season,'' said Beltre, who worked on conditioning on Wednesday...

Article: Beltre says Dodgers' offer was too little, too late.(The Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 19, 2004 ;     524 words ......surgery to remove bone chips, Adrian Beltre had waited long enough. He removed the cast from his left ankle himself. Beltre said he was much more patient with...on, that I would have to leave L.A., Beltre said by phone from Seattle on Friday...

Article: A BREAKTHROUGH FOR BELTRE NOW-HEALTHY 3RD BASEMAN ON THE CUSP OF STARDOM FOR DODGERS.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Most every day in the last month, Adrian Beltre walked to the food table in the Dodgertown...hole in his stomach. It is just Adrian Beltre, the Dodgers third baseman. Finally healthy...first distraction-free spring training, Beltre seems ready to burst into the superstar...

Article: Beltre has been worth the wait for Dodgers
Daily Breeze;  September 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Why? Why did Adrian Beltre pick the summer of 2004 to become one...after six years, things have clicked for Beltre. "I was 26 when I made it here," he said...year." The amazing thing is not that Beltre has become a star. That's been a given...

Article: DODGERS NOTEBOOK; Beltre out of slump; Who's on first?; Four-hit wonders. Offensive onslaught. Covering the bases
Daily Breeze;  July 28, 2002 ;     522 words ...DODGERS NOTEBOOK. Beltre out of slump. Who's on first?. Four-hit wonders. Offensive onslaught. DODGERS NOTEBOOK. Beltre out of slump. Who's on first?. Four-hit wonders. DODGERS NOTEBOOK. Beltre out of slump. Who's on first?. DODGERS NOTEBOOK...