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USA Today, Aug 23, 2008 covering what would be the final 25 games of Matt Holliday's playing career:

DENVER (AP) — The 38-year-old All-Star outfielder sauntered into the Colorado clubhouse at Coors Field and instantly felt like a rookie again. Matt Holliday was back at home.

The Rockies selected the contract of Holliday from Triple-A Albuquerque on Thursday after he signed a minor league deal last month. A seventh-round pick in 1998 by Colorado, Holliday played the first five seasons of his 14-year career with the Rockies, hitting .290 as a rookie in 2004 and helping lead Colorado to its only World Series appearance in 2007. Holliday hasn't played in the majors since last season with the New York Yankees, when he batted .231 with 19 homers.

The one lingering [locker room] question was this: Did Holliday actually touch home plate in Game No. 163 in 2007? Holliday tagged from third in the 13th inning against San Diego and dove in headfirst for the winning run, a victory in the NL wild-card tiebreaker that vaulted Colorado into the postseason. Whether Holliday touched home remains a contention with Black, who was the Padres' manager then. Holliday joked that home plate umpire Tim McClelland shared some responsibility.

"I didn't call myself safe," Holliday said. "It wasn't my fault. I tell Buddy, 'Take it out on Tim.'"

Black doesn't buy it.

"He should be blamed. He missed home. You know what that is? That's baseball," Black lightheartedly said. "That one hurt. I still think about it."

Redid the facegen. Hard not seeing him in a Rockies or Cardinals uniform but I put him on Yanks as that was the pic I used.