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Article: Healthy Adrian Beltre Is Grateful
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- March 2, 2002
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VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Adrian Beltre is a happy man these days, as
evidenced by his ever-present smile.
Considering the condition the Los Angeles Dodgers' third baseman found
himself in at this time a year ago, it's understandable.
"I wake up every day happy," said Beltre, who missed the first 36
games last season because of complications following an emergency
appendectomy. "It was a nightmare, all I went through last year.
"What I went through made me appreciate a lot of things. I was healthy
my whole life. That was the first time I had ever been in a hospital.
Hopefully it will be the last time for a long, long time."
Beltre and the ...