Hill in majors after nearly losing fingers

 
By Rick Gano
Published: September 3, 2008

CHICAGO — Koyie Hill may have been the happiest call-up of all when the Chicago Cubs expanded their roster Monday for the final month of the season.

Just to be in a major league uniform — any baseball uniform really — seemed unlikely a little more than 10 months ago when Hill, a Lawton Eisenhower product, nearly lost three fingers and the thumb on his right hand in a table saw accident.

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