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Saturday Spotlight (Audio): Craig Breslow

Found June 27, 2009 on FanHouse:
PLAYERS: Craig Breslow
TEAMS: Oakland Athletics

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by Jeff FletcherFiled under: AthleticsSaturday Spotlight is a weekly look inside the backgrounds and personalities of major leaguers.Don't tell me you haven't heard of A's left-hander Craig Breslow? He is, of course, The Smartest Man in Baseball, as determined by the Wall Street Journal. Breslow went to Yale and graduated with a degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. So, yeah, he's not your typical major leaguer. In this interview he talks about how such a brainiac got to be a ballplayer, and what he plans to do with all that gray matter when he's done pitching.Click after the jump to listen to the interview...Saturday Spotlight (Audio): Craig Breslow originally appeared on Fanhouse MLB Blog on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EDT . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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