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Thu 04 Apr 2003Guilty of helping to create a false hero
George Kimball/America At Large: He seemed to represent everything that was good about sport, and in retrospect, part of the charm may have been that Kirby Puckett didn't resemble an athlete at all.
He stood barely 5ft 8in tall, and packed into that frame was a pudgy little ball of energy. The late Los Angeles sportswriter Jim Murray once described him as "a cantaloupe with legs", and every time he hit a baseball or chased down a fly ball he was, in effect, striking a blow for the short, round men of the world.
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