Jonathan Papelbon, off the top of his head, doesn’t know the precise contents of the trophy case he keeps at home. The case displays the baseballs he used to notch milestones, the tokens of his increasingly historic career. He does not know how many. “I got a bunch of them, man,’’ Papelbon said. (Full article: 740 words)

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