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    Wednesday, October 20, 2004

    Sox Use Dead Man For Pennant Push


    Somewhere on a slab in Boston is a citizen of Red Sox Nation who actually gave his body to the cause.

    With the team's future increasingly dependent on Curt Schilling's right leg, doctors decided to try an apparently unprecedented procedure to keep a tendon from slipping around in his ankle. But first, they wanted to test it out.

    So they used a cadaver. No way to know if it was a Red Sox fan.

    "We were going to try to do everything we could to try to stabilize the tendon,"
    Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said Wednesday night before Game 7 of the AL championship series.
    "We were only going to do it as a last-ditch effort."

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