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Monday, September 01, 2008

A September call-up deserving of a hand 29-year-old Koyie Hill is in the bigs and back behind the plate this fall for the Chicago Cubs. Unremarkable -- except Hill cut off three fingers and a thumb with a table saw less than a year ago.

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Take that Kurt Warner!

Mordecai Brown, is that you?

Great story and remarkable comeback.

Wow! Most catchers wind up with a set of messed up fingers on their throwing hand anyway, so Hill is just a little bit ahead of the game. It sounds like he will do just fine in baseball, and more importantly in his life.

Awesome story. Congrats to Hill.

This is the sort of story that makes SportsFilter worthwhile. Awesome find, wfraze, thank you.

Bo, are you saying Kurt Warner has no thumbs?!? Because ...

... we already knew that.

I'm saying that any player who goes on the DL with a finger injury should know the story of Mr. Hill. If he can recover from his injury and be completely rehabbed enough to play within a year, it seems to make Warner's lingering finger injuries look like nuttin'. (This is 1999-2002 Kurt Warner I'm speaking of, not the present day version.) Then again, I'm sitting at my computer complaining about an NFL season of 6+ years ago, so what do I know.

But in regards to the article, thanks fraze, it was a goodie.

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