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Alfonso Soriano holds up his Major League Baseball All-Star Game MVP Trophy in 2004, from Texas Rangers.com.

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(del) (cur) 17:09, 17 June 2006 . . Bookworm1 (Talk | contribs) . . 275×235 (22,656 bytes) (Alfonso Soriano holds up his Major League Baseball All-Star Game MVP Trophy in 2004, from [http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/tex/news/tex_news.jsp?ymd=20040714&content_id=799783&vkey=news_tex&fext=.jsp Texas Rangers.com])