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The Bald-Headed Truth
POSTED:Fri, October 3, 2008 @ 3:06PM
More on VictorinoJust watching the live morning SportsCenter on ESPN and saw that Shane Victorino’s grand slam leading the Phillies to a 5-2 win over Milwaukee on Thursday was named the No. 1 play of the day.It is also the first grand slam in Phillies’ postseason history. Pretty amazing stuff for those who remember Shane as a kid who dominated every youth soccer and baseball league and then high school standout at St. Anthony. When I did the 1999 MIL Boy Athlete of the Year story on Shane as a senior, we asked the question to a few different people if he was the best athlete ever to come out of Maui. At the time, it might have seemed a little presumptuous for an island that produced the likes of Wally Yonamine and Kenji Kawaguchi, but not anymore.
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Robert Collias sports reporter Robert Collias has been covering Valley Isle and 50th state sports since 1989. He has covered Pro Bowls, Hula Bowls, Maui Invitationals, the Maui Stingrays, Mercedes-Benz Championships, Maui Interscholastic League and Little League — and everything in between — at The Maui News since 1990. He has worked in Guam, where he covered the 1988 Olympics, Eugene, Ore., Portland, Ore., Honolulu, and Wailuku in a career that began in college in 1985.
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