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Article: Feeling lucky, Dunn is NL player of the week Amid trade talk, the Reds left fielder hit .500 while swatting four home runs and driving in eight runs.
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- June 19, 2007
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OAKLAND -- If you go to Wikipedia.org and type in the word,
"strikeout," a photograph appears along with the definition. The
photograph is of Cincinnati Reds left fielder Adam Dunn striking out
against Atlanta's John Smoltz.
Not only was he unaware of the photograph, Dunn had no clue what
Wikipedia or a blogger are.
But he laughed when the photograph was explained to him: "That's
cool. I love being on the Internet. Hey, at least it's John Smoltz
and I ain't by myself striking out against him."
On the day of the photo, Smoltz struck out 10 Reds, Dunn three
times.
The Wikipedia folks may be poking fun at Dunn, but he was atop the
National League last week, winning Player of the Week after ...