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    Defying the odds

    Feb 04, 2020 3 minutes
    by MIKE LEMAIRE

    New Mexico State head coach Mike Kirby has barely been in Las Cruces for six months and he already has a Nick Gonzales story.

    The reigning Cape Cod League MVP and 2019 Division I batting champion, Gonzales was already a household name to Kirby when he took the job in June.

    But the former Cal State Fullerton and Nebraska assistant has coached plenty of future big leaguers and isn’t easily impressed, no matter

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