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One of Rocco Baldelli's baseball coaches, Bill Campbell, talks about the newest member of the Red Sox while standing in the Bishop Hendricken High School gym with Baldelli's retired sports numbers on the wall above: #22 was Baldelli's baseball number, and #12 was Baldelli's volleyball number. Journal photo / Kathy Borchers

WARWICK -- Down the hall from the main office of Bishop Hendricken High School, a flat-screen television broadcast a sports Web site's headline all yesterday about Cumberland native Rocco Baldelli joining his "hometown" Boston Red Sox.

Hendricken had added its own headline above: "Congratulations & Welcome Home."

Even Hendricken students who have never met Baldelli know he graduated from the all-boys Roman Catholic prep school in 2000 and look to him as a model of success. They noticed that MLB.com story on what they refer to as the "video board."

"There's no better feeling, no better representation that you can get from our school," said Gian Paolella, a 17-year-old senior from East Greenwich.

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