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Posted on Sun, May 24, 2009

Quiet work ethic fuels Phillies' Ibanez

Juan Ibanez's degree meant nothing in the United States. A chemist in Cuba, Raul Ibanez's father fled his native country, wary of raising his family under the increasingly oppressive Castro regime. It was the late 1960s and he felt the government was not delivering what it had promised, so he wanted out. »Read story

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