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Kirby Puckett, Minneapolis
Kirby Puckett 
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The 35-year-old Puckett, a 5'8", 216-pound knockwurst of a man, swings with a kick that could start a Harley Fat Boy and chugs around the outfield like the little engine that could. Diminutive, impish, always hustling, he has been as essential to midsummer nights as Puck himself.

--From "Baseball's Loss", Sports Illustrated, June 3, 1996, by Kostya Kennedy

Photograph by John Iacono

 

 

   
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