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When Phil Hughes was sitting on the bench with Mike Mussina the other night, he mentioned that an umpire, Chad Fairchild, was wearing No. 76 on his sleeve. Mussina corrected Hughes and said Fairchild, in fact, was wearing No. 75. That was an indication to Hughes that his vision might be a problem.
When Hughes returns to the Yankees, probably not before July 1, he will wear glasses on the mound. Hughes’s most pressing physical problem is a broken rib, but a doctor told him Friday that he was slightly nearsighted.
Hughes, who said contact lenses irritated his eyes, plans to wear goggles for day and night games. He said they would resemble the kind worn by Edwar Ramírez and the Tigers." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/baseball/majorleague/detroittigers/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Tigers’ Nate Robertson. Hughes said that he wanted to see the catcher’s signals better, and that he expected a side benefit, too. “I’ll look like I went to college,” he said.
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