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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bartolo Colon is the subject of a profile in the Thursday edition of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The New York Times,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;and in addition to shedding some light on the long-tenured but soft-spoken pitcher, the &lt;em&gt;Times&lt;/em&gt; tells some very entertaining stories from his youth.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colon grew up in the small town of El Copey&amp;nbsp;in the Dominican Republic, where he had a pet donkey named Pancho, which the article says inspired Colon's work ethic, allowing him to have such a long MLB career.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pancho&amp;nbsp;is memorialized in a training complex/museum that Colon has built in El Copey. That structure also features a test of strength from Colon's younger days, when his father says the future Cy Young winner would use his powerful arms to de-pulp 1,000 crates of coffee beans a day, according to the &lt;em&gt;New York Times.&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 Mark Cuban calls out ESPN's Chris Broussard over DeAndre Jordan saga reporting\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He has carved a baseball stadium out of the hillside, erected a Roman Catholic chapel and built a training complex for young baseball prospects that includes a small museum. Here are a pair of Colon\u2019s major league cleats. Here, a wall illustration telling the story of his beloved donkey, Pancho. And here, an old, crank-style de-pulping machine, with a sign offering a dare:&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;TRY YOUR STRENGTH AGAINST BARTOLO\u2019S&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;25 TURNS \u2013 BARTOLITO&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;50 TURNS \u2013 BARTOLO &lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;100 TURNS \u2013 SENOR BARTOLO&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;\u200B[New York Times]&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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