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Article: juan GONZALEZ; Juan Gonzalez's 101 RBI have put him on pace to break Hack Wilson's 68-year-old record and have made him the talk of the All-Star game.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 7, 1998
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Juan Gonzalez was the last American League All-Star to arrive in the visitors' clubhouse Monday at Coors Field. He was wearing a black-and-white-striped silk shirt that draped across his wide shoulders and then fit loosely around his narrow waist.
Gonzalez was first greeted at his assigned locker by Angel Presinal, his trainer from Puerto Rico. Soon, there were visits from several of the 10 other Hispanic players on the AL's 30-star roster.
The conversations were in Spanish, with Presinal serving as an interpreter for an eavesdropping reporter. First, Baltimore's Rafael Palmeiro came by to complain that he had been recruited as an AL replacement for the ...