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Baseball's Top COMEBACK, Players for 2001.

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| November 01, 2001 | VASS, GEORGE | COPYRIGHT 2001 Century Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SENTIMENT SELDOM RULES IN baseball and the operative phrases when it comes to a team disposing of a fading or under-achieving player, no matter how outstanding earlier in his career, are only too often "good riddance" and "don't let the door hit your fanny on the way out."

Heart-tugging "farewell tours" around the league such as accorded Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken, Jr., when they wound down their illustrious careers this past season are as rare as a good word by an angry and humiliated discarded player for his former employers.

Even the incomparable Babe Ruth got the bum's rush from the New York Yankees after the 1934 campaign when he was 41, tubby and on ...

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