REGENSBURG, Germany -- After batting .340 with 13 home runs at Triple-A New Orleans this season, third baseman Mike Cervenak had hoped to spend this September with the Miami Marlins. Instead, this week the 36-year-old player found himself on a ballfield along the Danube River singing the Czech Republic's national anthem as part of a rookie hazing. "I don't like to toot my own horn, but I think we were in key and we sang it very well," Cervenak said. "A couple of the guys emailed me [I would have to sing it] when I was still in the States so I spent the better part of my eight-and-a-half hour plane flight memorizing the Czech national anthem. I memorized it first in English, thinking I would...
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