Well-traveled Cora goes back
for more
Mar/20/08 08:20 AM Filed in:
Alex Cora
FORT MYERS - Ask Alex Cora [stats] what he remembers
most about playing baseball in Japan, and he
won’t take you down the usual road of culture
shock, language barriers and the many hours it took to
make the trip.
Not right away. First, the Red Sox [team stats] utility
infielder will talk to you about batting practice.
Cora was on a team of major league All-Stars -
“See, I really was an All-Star,” he likes
to say - for an eight-game series against Japanese
All-Stars in November 2004. When he arrived at the
ballpark for the first game, he was shocked to see that
the Japanese take batting practice with two players
hitting at the same time.
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