Transcript: Profile: Major-league baseball player Luis Gonzalez

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Profile: Major-league baseball player Luis Gonzalez

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Most of the attention in major-league baseball this season has been on San Francisco Giant slugger Barry Bonds and Seattle Mariners rookie Ichiro Suzuki. But the Arizona Diamondbacks' Luis Gonzalez is quietly racking up impressive numbers. He's competing with Bonds to set a new single-season home run record. And he may break another record, as well. From member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Mark Moran reports.

MARK MORAN reporting:

For the first decade of his major-league career, Luis Gonzalez was pretty much an average ...

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