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LOWELL, Mass. -- No one seems to know much about the origins of bucket duty. But it's been as much a batting practice staple as is the cage or that cut out screen that has saved the skull of many a BP chucker from a screaming comebacker. It's been said that some big league pitchers have gone to great lengths to get out of bucket duty...that Curt Schilling will pay $50 to an assistant clubbie to gather the balls that circulate through the outfield during BP and toss them into the big bucket situated safely behind a screen in back of second base. But this is not to impugn Schilling's sense of duty...and it is generally the duty performed during each day's BP by the previous game's starting pitcher. This is, instead to lay laurels at the large feet of one Nick Hagadone.


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