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Korean Baseball’s Old-Timers Rack Up The Records
Published by admin on January 4, 2009
STUB HUB is the place where serious fans buy and sell MLB tickets. Watch the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Rays, and the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies L-I-V-E in 2009.SOUTH KOREA - Can age really be nothing but a number?
As the Korea Baseball Organization clubs begin their training camp this week, two players, Hanwha Eagles’
pitcher Song Jin-woo and the Heroes’ catcher Kim Dong-soo, are in their 40s. Four others, the Eagles’ Koo Dae-sung, the Heroes’ Jun Jun-ho, the Samsung Lions’ Yang Jun-hyuk and the SK Wyverns’ Ga Deuk-yeom, will turn the big four-zero during the new season. These veterans, who have played for a combined 100 seasons, will be out to prove in 2009 that age is indeed just a meaningless numerical figure.
The left-handed Song, who turns 43 in February, is so old that three of his coaches are younger than he is. He’s been around so long that he has a teammate, rookie pitcher Kim Joo, who was born in the same year that Song made his KBO debut: 1989.
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