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WITH ONE EYE

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n a great article, Sight to Behold, L. Salazar joined the Braves for their hideous sound and knocking him
Jon Wertheim tells the story of spring training games in 2011 and was backward, down the dugout steps.
Luis Salazar. A longtime major- coaching third base one March after- He fractured his right arm in the
league infielder and minor-league noon. As Wertheim tells it:
fall, but that was the least of it. He
coach, Salazar had been out of
Salazar was 55, a former third was unconscious, concussed, and
baseball for a year, happily sitting
baseman whose reaction times blood poured from his nose, mouth
at home in Boca Raton. But in August
were not what they once were.
2010, he got the itch to return, so, with and eye, puddling around his head
No matter. He had no chance. Not
the blessing of Graciela, his wife of 33 with slugger Brian Mccann hitting as he lay face down. As a helicopter
years, Salazar sent out his resume. The from maybe 60 feet away and the transported Salazar to an Orlando
Atlanta Braves offered him a job man- foul ball traveling over 100 miles trauma center, the players strug-
aging their Class-A Carolina League per hour. The projectile smacked gled to keep it together, not least
team, the Lynchburg Hillcats. Salazar in his left eye, making a McCann, who left the game.

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