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Leader of the tribe: catcher Victor Martinez a new star for Cleveland's Indians: young switch-hitter continues to develop into a quality backstop and a clutch performer with the bat.
VICTOR MARTINEZ THINKS ABOUT his mother--a lot. He remembers the day that his father died of a heart attack. No warning, just gone. Just like that.
The Indians' catcher was seven years old, living in Venezuela, not sure what would happen next.
His mother worked two jobs. Margot Martinez was a nurse at one hospital in the mornings, a nurse at a second hospital in the afternoons. Usually, that covered 12 draining hours a day. She had four kids to raise by herself. What was she supposed to do?
"That's why I have her with me right now in Cleveland," Martinez said. "I don't want her to work anymore."
He paused.
"I like having her ...
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