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Article: .401; With a Batting Average Second to None, Orioles' Alomar a Huge Hit All Around
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- The Washington Post
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- May 28, 1996
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The Baltimore Orioles have a leadoff hitter, Brady Anderson,
who's on a pace to smash 62 home runs this season. And they have a
pitching ace, Mike Mussina, who's one win off the American League
lead in victories.
But ask virtually anyone in their clubhouse who has been the
team's most valuable player in the first eight weeks of the 1996
season, and the answer you'll get won't be Anderson or Mussina.
Almost to a man, the Orioles will tell you that it has been the
wondrous Roberto Alomar. "Robbie," Orioles outfielder Bobby Bonilla
said here the other day, "has been playing the game of baseball
about as well as you can play it. Take him to a higher league."
When the Orioles signed the ...