Cardinals' Eckstein No Stranger to Challenges; Family 'Programmed' to Overcome Obstacles

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › January 06, 2005

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ST. LOUIS (AP) - For years, David Eckstein has dismissed the chatter by those questioning his range as a 5-foot-7, 165-pound shortstop. Little wonder that fielding questions Wednesday about how he'll fit in as Edgar Renteria's successor in baseball-crazy St. Louis didn't faze him a bit.

After all, the Cardinal newcomer submits, challenges are not foreign to a guy from a family he calls programmed to overtake any obstacle, with some of his siblings having kidneys not their own to prove it.

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Cardinals' Eckstein No Stranger to Challenges; Family 'Programmed' to Overcome Obstacles

He calls the family matters his "backbone," the grit that drives him. And he says that Cardinals fans anxious about prospects of an infield without Renteria - the two-time Go...

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