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 | | Most strikingly, after major league clubs had proudly supplied 180 players to WBC rosters, the championship game was decided between Japan, which had only two major leaguers, and Cuba, which had none (outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and pitcher Akinori Otsuka). |
 | | It was oddly old-fashioned, too, to see in a major league park the game of pepper (in which a batter raps softly tossed balls back at one or more fielders) and infield (pre-game fielding practice in which infielders and outfielders throw to bases), as Cuba and Japan did at Petco Park in San Diego. |
 | | Rodriguez headed the list of $25.7 million and was No. 1 for the sixth straight year, according to a study of major league contracts by The Associated Press. |
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