sportingnews.com - 3/13/2008
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By Chris Mottram
The Yankees and Rays got into a little bit of a skirmish during their spring training game today, but based on the photos I've seen , it doesn't look like it was much. But whatever it was, or wasn't, this is what started it all:
That would be 6'5", 215-pound Shelley Duncan coming in just a little bit high on 5'9", 175-pound Akinori Iwamura. The whole thing is ...
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