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With Hamilton's Past, 2-0 Deficit Is Nothing

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If anybody is equipped to lead a team back from a two-games-to-none deficit in the World Series, it is Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, who has climbed out of a deeper and darker abyss.

Five Octobers ago, Hamilton was out of baseball and on his grandmother’s doorstep, strung out and gaunt. No player has bared more on baseball’s biggest stage than Hamilton, who speaks openly about an addiction to alcohol and drugs that cost him nearly four years of his baseball...

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