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Article: ROWAND GETS THE PICTURE Sox center fielder can carry with him a constant reminder of where he needs to be
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 14, 2004
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Aaron Rowand's turnaround has nothing to do with
vanity, although it just happened to be initiated while he was
admiring his Class A baseball card.
When a downtrodden Rowand opened a piece of fan mail early last
season, in the midst of the worst funk of his baseball career, out of
the envelope leaped the card and the answer to all his hitting
problems.
The guy in the picture certainly was Rowand, but the ballplayer
looked nothing like the one who was about to be demoted to Class AAA
Charlotte.
Rowand was in his hitting stance on the front of the card, and the
Jeff Bagwell-like squatty stance he employed, with his hands cocked
below shoulder height, was nothing like the one ...