What’s In My Closet? Steroid-Free Baseball Edition

Found these two old pics over the holidays. In the one above I'm 7 at some rinky dink field in Duncanville; after the jump I'm 37 at a home-run contest at The Ballpark in Arlington. In each I'm a Rangers' fan, consumed not with steroids and HGH but rather batting...
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Found these two old pics over the holidays.

In the one above I’m 7 at some rinky dink field in Duncanville; after the jump I’m 37 at a home-run contest at The Ballpark in Arlington.

In each I’m a Rangers’ fan, consumed not with steroids and HGH but rather batting glove night, Minyard bat night and, yep, even Farm & Ranch night.

 

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Richie Whitt

Richie Whitt has been a columnist, reporter, broadcaster and blogger covering Dallas’ sports scene for more than 40 years. He wrote the Observer‘s sports column 2005-2011 and has reported sports on TV, radio and online. You can read his latest work here.

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