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20 years after debut, SF Giants’ Verlander reflects on first career start

Summary by Chico Enterprise-Record
PHOENIX — Two decades later, Vance Wilson still remembers the poster. Inside the visiting clubhouse at the ballpark formerly known as Jacobs Field hung a Reebok-branded poster of two-time MVP Juan Gonzalez. As Wilson recalls, Gonzalez was hitting a neck-high fastball. Ahead of his debut, a 22-year-old Justin Verlander looked at the poster and cracked a tongue-in-cheek joke. “Yeah, not my fastball.” “I remember it like it was yesterday,” Wilson, …

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