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Tampa Bay Rays' Sam Fuld still amazed by rise to prominence (St. Petersburg Times)
**By Marc Topkin, Times Staff Writer**
Saturday, March 24, 2012
PORT CHARLOTTE -- A year ago, Sam Fuld was, well, interesting.
Fringe major-leaguer, acquired in a trade, with a shot to make the Rays as a
backup. Decent backstory, what with the diabetes, lack of size, Stanford
education, intellectual parents, Stats LLC internship. Scrappy rep. Good
quote. Nice enough guy.
Hardly, though, the stuff of legend.
"He was," manager Joe Maddon said, "just Sam."
But that was before the breathtaking catch in Chicago, the frenzied Fenway
Park debut, the Super Sam Fuld Superhero Cape giveaway, the guest spot on the
All-Star Home Run Derby broadcast, the dazzling dash to beat the Royals.
Before the Twitter explosion, before all the interviews and national stories,
before he was asked to sign autographs, to lend his name to causes, to write
articles about what he thought.
Before he became The Legend.
"I never would have thought all that stuff would have happened," Fuld said.
"And in such a small time frame."
_What _happened was only slightly more amazing than _how _it happened: Manny
Ramirez failing a drug test and deciding to retire a week into the season,
Johnny Damon moving to the DH ...