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Article: EL DUQUE KEEPS CALM IN RAFT-TO-RICHES SEASON.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 19, 1998
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Orlando Hernandez had been in spring training with the Yankees for only a few days in March when the Florida weather turned raw and cold, but he continued to wear Bermuda shorts and a cotton golf shirt.
``You ought to get some warmer clothes,'' somebody suggested.
``No,'' the pitcher known as El Duque said. ``I must adjust.''
Even in those months before he joined the Yankees, this was a thinking man's pitcher who knew that the weather in the United States sometimes would not be anywhere near as warm as it was in Cuba, that he had to learn to acclimate himself to the occasional chill.
But baseball's October weather, which has been known ...