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Article: El Mas Fino del Mundo.(baseball player Vladimir Guerrero)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
- Author:
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That's Spanish for "the best in the world." But you can call him Vlad.
THE SUBJECT SITTING at a table in the middle of the Montreal Expos clubhouse. The subject is wearing headphones. Good ones, too, big silver domes on either side of his head that are straight out of the Princess Leia collection at Best Buy. Even with the good cans, the subject has the volume cranked so high that you can hear the faintest thrumming of the merengue rhythm from across the room. The subject is intently playing a baseball video game. At this moment, there are people out at NORAD who are not staring as deeply into their screens as the subject is staring into this one. The subject ...