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Article: Smith brought flair to a Hall career
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2002
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Smith brought flair to a Hall career
Shortstop's defensive wizardry set standard
By JOHN KEKIS Associated Press
Sunday, July 28, 2002
Cooperstown, N.Y. -- Ozzie Smith says he's done his last back
flip.
Perhaps.
"You never know what will happen when you get in front of people
and start thanking the ones that have helped you along the way and
see the look on their faces," the 47-year-old Smith said as he
contemplated his induction today into the Baseball Hall of Fame. "How
I will react to that, I don't know."
Smith's road to Cooperstown -- he's the 22nd shortstop to make the
Hall -- is the stuff of dreams. The second of Marvella and Clovis
Smith's six children, Osborne Earl Smith was born the ...