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Article: Rowand card a Winn-lose situation
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- March 8, 2008
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- San Francisco Giants center fielder Aaron
Rowand is rifling through a huge cardboard box filled with stacks of
envelopes, shelling them like peanuts.
"There's one in here somewhere," he says. "I get them all the
time."
Inside the envelopes are baseball cards: glossy ones, old-school
ones, tough-guy portrait shots and others frozen in action. One card
even has a swatch of his game-used jersey stuck to it. Players
receive dozens of cards every day from autograph-seeking collectors,
and Rowand usually gets around to signing them.
But he doesn't have his pen out today.