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Luke Carlin
Luke Carlin
By Sara Normand

Date: Nov 11, 2005

This may come as a surprise, but hockey isn’t the sport of choice for every Canadian anymore. Just ask Luke Carlin, who spent last season with the Mobile BayBears, a Double-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres. That’s right—baseball. In fact, the 24-year old catcher from Aylmer, Quebec in Canada played just about every sport in high school BUT hockey. Football, volleyball, track, basketball; he played them all at Philemon Wright. But wait, why not baseball when he gets paid to play it now?

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