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Article: Burks begins again Ex-Sox center fielder sees future in Colorado
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1994
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TUCSON -- The lessons he learned in Boston have served him well
in life. Ellis Burks is alive and well with the Colorado Rockies,
and the future is bright once again.
Burks has no regrets about leaving the Chicago White Sox, winners
of the American League West last year, after one season to join an
expansion club. During the offseason, he signed a three-year
guaranteed contract worth an estimated $9 million. He and the
Rockies are hoping the back problems that led to his departure from
the Red Sox in 1992 are behind him.
And Burks has no regrets about being an ex-Red Sox. In fact, he
says he now is pleased that Boston gave him his release in November