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Article: Nomar on comeback trail, but to where?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 28, 2005
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PEORIA -- The stadium was locked to the public, but the Peoria
Chiefs were inside taking batting and fielding practice. Nomar Garcia-
parra was there, taking a few swings in the cage, stepping out for
other Class A players, then going back in. He went out to shortstop.
For what, I don't know, because he just stood there with two other
players and stretched one way, leaned another.
No balls were hit to him.
Nothing was happening, and the game was four hours away. But from
the sidewalks surrounding O'Brien Field, people were coming, looking
through the black wrought iron fence. A man and his son in a Cubs
Nomar jersey. A half dozen people out beyond center field. Three
kids. A family, with a ...