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Garciaparra retires as member of Red Sox (AP)

dateMarch 10th, 2010 person Yahoo! Sports - Top News folder top

Former Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, who signed a one-day minor league baseball contract with the Red Sox , throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a spring training baseball game at City of Palms Park, in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Garciaparra signed the contract to retire as a member of the team. The Red Sox played the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday.

Six years after he was traded away for the final pieces of Boston's World Series puzzle, Nomar Garciaparra finally got a friendly farewell from the Red Sox. The rookie of the year, batting champion and All-Star whose trade began a bitter back-and-forth in Boston and, for Garciaparra, an inglorious slide into irrelevance, signed a ceremonial one-day contract with the Red Sox on Wednesday for...


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