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Article: Last season, Granderson became just the third player in history -- and first since Willie Mays 50 years earlier -- to compile 20 homers, 20 triples, 20 doubles and 20 stolen bases. Asked to describe the moment when it clicked, he gave two.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 20, 2008
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"The first one would be my freshman summer [at Thornton
Fractional South High outside Chicago]. The reason being, that was
the first time I ever played a lot of baseball at one point in time
-- [there was] the high school spring season, and the high school
summer team and [an American] Legion team, and then I was also
playing basketball that summer as well.
"So that was that summer where I was like: 'Man, my friends are
going to this concert. My friends are going to this amusement park.
. . . And I can't go because I've got a game this weekend.' And I
started having to decide: 'Okay, which way do I want to go? Was
going to Six Flags -- the same Six Flags I've already been to 10
times ...
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