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Paul Gutierrez
Raised in Barstow, Calif., where he played community college baseball for two years, Paul Gutierrez has worked at Sports Illustrated and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he covered his alma mater's Runnin' Rebels at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During a six-year stint at the Los Angeles Times, he co-authored Tommy Davis' "Tales from the Dodgers Dugout." He came to The Bee in October 2005 and is now a Bay Area sports features writer who concentrates on baseball during the spring and summer.

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July 28, 2007

Window to history

Wanna see baseball history? Then try sticking by the side of Giants manager Bruce Bochy.

Not only will Bochy bear physical witness to a new big league home run record when Barry Bonds goes deep two more times - so long as Bochy is in the dugout - he was already on the field when the Hit King was crowned.

Bochy was catching for the San Diego Padres on Sept. 11, 1985 at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium when Pete Rose singled to left field off Eric Show for the 4,192nd base hit of his career to overtake Ty Cobb.

-Paul Gutierrez

Posted by Bill Bradley, July 28, 2007 08:24 PM

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