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THEY WERE TELLING OUTFIELDER Mike Cameron he was going to be traded to his third team in two years, and when he heard where it was he shook his head and his breath left his mouth in a very long whoosh.
"Seattle? Uuugghhhh," he said.
Seattle was rain. Seattle was cold. Seattle was as far from his Georgia home as baseball could possibly send him. How could he know he would find the most elusive of joys, a place that was home, a place that loved him simply because of who he was--a player without pretension? Because every minute he is on the field, he acts like he loves the game.
But this is the way his father, Jimmy Thornton, always told him he ...