Will Middlebrooks recently got a taste of what it’s like to play in “The Show.”

The former Liberty-Eylau all-stater started a ride last August that has already covered peaks and valleys after he turned down a scholarship to play baseball at Texas A&M for a hefty contract ($925,000) with the Boston Red Sox, who had selected him in the fifth round of the 2007 June free agent draft.

Middlebrooks’ first professional season with the Lowell Spinners in the short-season New York-Penn League probably hasn’t been what he had envisioned, but the same could probably be said about ...

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