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Boone to have heart surgery Thursday (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Houston Astros third baseman Aaron Boone is scheduled to have heart surgery in California to replace a bicuspid aortic valve. The 36-year-old Boone was diagnosed with a congenital defect in his heart where the valve has two -- not the normal three -- cusps to manage blood flow. The surgery will be performed at Stanford University Medical Center on Thursday.