Doug Clark's baseball life dream

Doug Clark is 1-for-11 in his major league career, his lone hit coming in 2006 for the A's. Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images

In Hermosillo, Mexico, it is 81 degrees a little after 7 p.m. MT on Thursday night. The stands of the new estadio are packed and raucous. Flags waving. Songs ringing out. Cerveza flowing. Two outs, top of the first inning of the Caribbean Series championship, Latin America's great baseball theater. Up steps left fielder Doug Clark for the Yaquis de Obregon, playing as the road team before the home crowd. He grounds out to first to end the inning.

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