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Article: Kinsler a real catch.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2008
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It is 90 minutes before the Texas Rangers' series finale with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the best second baseman in the American League is sitting at his locker, eating ... sushi.
For more than 150 years, baseball players have called raw fish "bait." But here Ian Kinsler is, snacking on Flipper, preparing himself to extend the major leagues' longest current hitting streak.
He's an All-Star now, something that doesn't seem to surprise Kinsler as much as it does the teams that thought he was too skinny, too ordinary in 2003 to be picked in anything before the draft's 17th round.
Ian Kinsler didn't just want to make the major leagues. ...