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Article: Carpenter nails Cy Young Award
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2005
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NEW YORK -- Chris Carpenter was ready to call it quits.
Toiling in Double-A two years ago, trying to work his way back
from shoulder surgery, he pitched a game in Tennessee just before the
All-Star break and couldn't even play catch afterward because his
right arm hurt so much.
Carpenter knew something was wrong again, even though the doctors
didn't think so. He hadn't seen his infant son in about a month, and
all he wanted to do was go home to New Hampshire with his wife,
Alyson.
"I'll never forget the night we sat here until about 3 o'clock in
the morning crying and talking about my career," Carpenter said. "I
was ready to be done. And she didn't think I was, that I would regret
it if I ...