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It was so selflessly like him, sitting there quietly amid the understandable gush of emotion flowing Tim Salmon's way in the final week of the season.

Darin Erstad smiled and applauded and offered his own heartfelt quotes directed toward the team's most popular player.

Then he, too, packed up and slipped out of the Angels clubhouse, possibly for the last time.

"Yeah, it could be," Erstad said. "I hope it's not, but it is possible, yeah."

If it was the end for him in Anaheim, it's a shame, because Erstad deserved a rousing sendoff of his own. No one in the history of the franchise played harder to win baseball games. No one was ever more of a leader, either.

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