Article: SAFE AT HOME IN CHICAGO From Cuba to Costa Rica to New York to White Sox -- quite a journey for Orlando Hernandez

What happened between here and there just might tell everything that is needed to know about Orlando Hernandez.

It has nothing to do with baseball and everything to do with teamwork, desire and a will to see an improbable task to its completion.

The life in the United States of the White Sox' newest pitcher began at the dawn of 1998 as he left behind his native Cuba on Christmas in 1997.

The time bridge between his two lives -- while relatively short -- is filled with signs that the Sox found themselves a player of high character. At the very least, they have a survivor who thinks of others as much -- if not more -- as himself.

Hernandez's journey to the United States was not as comfortable ...

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