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Cleveland baseball fan, was looking forward to Mr. LaPorta being a late bloomer. And that was the spring where someone talked Mr. LaPorta into giving up his baseball career to be involved in a Pizza Franchise offer that Mr. LaPorta felt might be something he would regret later on for not trying. I can only speculate that even though Mr. LaPorta appeared to have a chance to resurrect his MLB career, maybe he never fully recovered from his hip issue and jumped at the chance to be in on the ground floor of the Pizza Franchise business. Here is a link to the Pizza Franchise announcement.
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I think there was also a hip area injury and I recall when he came back from the hip injury it seems as if there was a disconnect between his lower body and his center of gravity when would swing the bat. It was as if his power was being generated by either his lower legs, or his midsection, but not
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