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Feb 23 2009, AP

Stretched out on a chair in front of his locker, Cliff Lee delicately balanced a laptop computer on his thighs. Scratching his head, the AL’s reigning Cy Young Award winner plotted his next move in an online chess game before heading outside for another d

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