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A Q&A with Mike Schmidt:

Fan: Mike, even though you’re one of the Top 10 players in baseball history, I think you were underappreciated in Philadelphia, probably because you made it look so easy. I know it wasn’t easy and that you worked hard. Is that how you see it?

Schmidt: Well, thank you for saying that, for realizing that I did work hard, and yes, I agree with you. See, I wasn’t a Philadelphia kind of athlete. They like players like Lenny Dykstra, who got his uniform dirty every game. And he always had tobacco juice running down his chin and staining his jersey. And they liked Aaron Rowand because he was always running into the outfield wall. Greg Luzinski was their kind of guy. The Philly fan likes

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