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Buehler's tattoo is a message he received early, from a relative who died young

LOS ANGELES - On the day he turned 17, Walker Buehler, accompanied by his girlfriend and his mother, went to the basement of a family friend's house in Lexington, Ky.

Buehler gave a tattoo artist a baseball with his favorite handwritten inscription on it, a note from his late uncle.

Thirty minutes later, Buehler glanced in the mirror at his first and only tattoo on the left side of his torso that read in identical script, "Always do your best U Pig."

"I didn't want my kids to get any tattoos. I don't have any tattoos," said Tony Buehler, Walker's father. "But (when) I saw my kid got that

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