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Title: Baseball profile: Mark Kotsay--Oakland A's.
Author: Rick Sorci
Publication: Baseball Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Century Publishing
Volume: 64Issue: 3Page: 49(1)

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Chapters: Aaron Rowand, Kirk Saarloos, Mark Kotsay, Reed Johnson, Ricky Romero, Frank Tanana, Don Aase, Chad Cordero, Jeff Robinson, Phil Nevin, José Mota, Tim Wallach, Kurt Suzuki, Jeremy Giambi, Mike Lamb, Brent Mayne, Jason Windsor, Erasmo Ramirez, Mike Schooler, Danny Boone, Dann Howitt, Brandon Duckworth, John Fishel, Wes Littleton, John Christensen, Mike Rouse, Mike Harkey, Kevin Reimer, Dan Naulty, Shane Turner, Matt Wise, Huck Flener, Jordan de Jong, Gary Buckels, Greg Mathews, Shane Costa, Larry Casian, Andy Mota, Jeff Abbott, Dan Whitmer, Adam Johnson, Steve Sisco, Brent Billingsley, Frank Charles, Dante Powell, Andre David. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 150. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aaron Ryan Rowand (born August 29, 1977 in Portland, Oregon) is a center fielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the San Francisco Giants. He has previously played for the Chicago White Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies. Rowand attended Glendora High School in California where he graduated in 1995. Drafted by the New York Mets, he elected to go to college instead. He attended Cal State Fullerton from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, Rowand earned All-American honors before being selected by the Chicago White Sox in the first round (35th pick) of the 1998 amateur draft. Aaron Rowand in center field on October 5, 2005.Rowand made his major league debut for the Chicago White Sox on June 16, 2001 as a pinch hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals. He finished his rookie season fourth among American League rookies in batting average at .293. He collected his first major league hit on June 19, 2001, against Kansas City Royals' pitcher Tony Cogan. Rowand suffered a broken left shoulder blade and rib in a dirt bike accident in the 2002 off season and spent part of spring training recovering. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1562952 ... Read more

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Chapters: Nobuhiko Matsunaka, José Contreras, Troy Glaus, Mark Kotsay, Jeff Weaver, Jeff Williams, Jin Kab-Yong, Travis Lee, Braden Looper, Jacque Jones, Augie Ojeda, Jim Parque, Cho In-Sung, Kris Benson, Tadahito Iguchi, Billy Koch, Rob Cordemans, Seth Greisinger, Johnny Balentina, Micheal Nakamura, Eduardo Paret, Makoto Imaoka, Omar Linares, Pedro Luis Lazo, Son Min-Han, Yoshitomo Tani, Lee Byung-Kyu, Lim Sun-Dong, Orestes Kindelán, Masanori Sugiura, Antonio Scull, Masao Morinaka, Omar Ajete, Luis Ulacia, Antonio Pacheco Massó, Peter Vogler, Ormari Romero, Miguel Caldés Luis, Takeo Kawamura, Juan Manrique, Alberto Hernández, José Estrada González, Lázaro Vargas, Evert-Jan 't Hoen, Eelco Jansen, Eliecer Montes de Oca, Rey Isaac, Omar Luis, Jorge Fumero. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 160. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nobuhiko Matsunaka Matsunaka Nobuhiko, born December 26, 1973 in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan) is a left fielder and designated hitter for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Matsunaka is the only active hitter in Japanese professional baseball to have ever led the league in all three Triple Crown categories in the same season. He played in the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics as well as the 2006 World Baseball Classic, hitting cleanup in 1996 and 2006. Matsunaka was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, and attended the local Yatsushiro First High School (currently Shugakukan High School). He joined Nippon Steel Corporation Kimitsu Works, a team in the Japanese industrial leagues, upon graduating high school in 1991. In 1996, 22-year-old Matsunaka, then still a first baseman for Nippon Steel-Kimitsu, gathered national attention when he hit a game-tying grand slam in the finals of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics against Cuba as a member of the Japanese national team. He was pick...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7554331 ... Read more