It was an out-of-body experience for a Minor League catcher, as surreal as it gets for a youngster who also thought it might be as close as he would ever get to the big leagues.
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The number on his jersey was too high to recall. He had no name stitched on the back, no real feel for the kind of pitcher he was about to face, and the batting helmet Mike Matheny had grabbed for his Cactus League debut was all, all wrong.
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Mike Matheny stood in the dugout wearing a stupid-looking helmet and a jersey with no name on it. It was the spring of 1992, he was 21 years old, and he had just one professional season to his name, a 64-game campaign at rookie ball.
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