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tickets for any Major League Baseball game Ivan Rodriguez
celebrates with the World Series trophy. (Charles Krupa/AP) NEW
YORK -- Pudge Rodriguez threw his catcher's mask so high in the
air, it hadn't even come down from the night sky by the time the
Marlins had gathered into two joyous scrums and he was buried in
one of them.  That this particular catcher's mask landed on the
infield at Yankee Stadium while this particular player and his
teammates celebrated a World Series title was pure poetry for
the one-time wonderkid who became a mentor to a whole new
generation of young stars.  Three times while he was with the
Texas Rangers, the club he broke into the Majors with at age 19
and played with until this season, the Yankees knocked his team
from the playoffs.  This time, Rodriguez was on the side of the
conquerors, those irrepressible