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Canos felt at home in Taiwan
Posted by: Jack Curry on Nov 6, 2011 at 08:19:40 PM

KAOISHUNG, Taiwan -- The father wore his son's uniform jersey and sat in the same dugout as him. He is a proud man and a gentleman, the father is. He felt blessed to be able to watch his son from the best seat in the ballpark, a place that is reserved for the players. But, for these games, the father sat next to the son.

Before Robinson Cano visited this island, he had heard stories about this faraway place through Jose, his father. For five different seasons, Jose Cano left his son in the Dominican Republic and traveled here to pitch. He pitched for the Uni-President Lions from 1992 to 1994 and for the Wei Chuan Dragons in 1998 and 1999. He pitched because that was how he made his living.

As soon as the son was invited to participate in a Major League tour of Taiwan, he telephoned his father.

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Cano, like Bieber, becoming a world celebrity
Posted by: Jack Curry on Oct 30, 2011 at 07:46:53 PM


THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT FEET ABOVE THE PACIFIC OCEAN - Four hours into a 14-hour flight from Los Angeles to Taiwan, Robinson Cano looked like Justin Bieber at an elementary school's dance.

After Cano strolled into the back of the Eva Airlines plane that was carrying a team of Major League players to an exhibition tour, the transformation occurred. The flight attendants behaved like eighth-grade girls while Cano channeled Bieber. The giddy women surrounded Cano, burying him with bags of pristine baseballs.

So a smiling Cano placed a pillow on the arm rest of seat 64G, sat down and signed and signed and signed. When Cano wasn't autographing baseballs with his right hand, he was pausing to pose for pictures. There were a dozen flight attendants trying to

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