Independent's Day: Sherrill Beats the Odds
Published 7/15/2008 by Marc Carig at Wash Post MLB
Long before he joined the Orioles as an overlooked piece of perhaps the shrewdest trade of the offseason, George Sherrill started on his long road out of the independent leagues with little more than his own determination.
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