White Sox pitcher Contreras returns to old self
Published 5/20/2008 at chicagotribune.com - Sports
He lost his fastball and, briefly, his job last season, but the Sox are seeing the real Jose Contreras again
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The walls were caving in on Jose Contreras' world last summer.
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