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Transcript: Look at Young Baseball `Natural` in Louisiana, CBS
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- CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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JOHN ROBERTS, CBS ANCHOR: Hope always springs eternal in baseball
spring training camps.
He may not make it to the majors this season, but in tonight`s "Eye
on America," Byron Pitts introduces you to a diamond in the rough
who has "natural" written all over him.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BYRON PITTS, CBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There
is a place in southern Louisiana where reptiles outnumber residents
and sunset is the only streetlight. And it`s here where a local kid
has become a legend.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There you go.
PITTS: At 6`6", size 18 shoes, he is ...