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In The Pipeline: Local Babe Ruth footage unearthed
I've never seen anything like this. It's hard to fathom. So rare is the view that I don't even want to blink for fear of missing a split second. Did I really just see that? Recently, at a signing for my new book, "Baseball in Orange County," an elderly...
Tags: The New York Times, Book, Baseball, Authors, Charlie Chaplin
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In the Pipeline: Author touches all the bases
"H.B. Champion Standards Win 3 to 2! Fastest Game of Baseball Witnessed Here! 2000 See Game! Gate receipts over $609!" So trumpeted the local headlines one summer day in the late 1920s after a ballgame in Huntington Beach. For many fans, baseball...
Tags: Baseball, Joe DiMaggio, Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth, Sports
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Column: Take a swing at these questions
 WASHINGTON — As the unendurable monotony of the offseason ends, celebrate baseball’s return with mental calisthenics. Everyone knows it was former Atlanta manager Dave Bristol who said, "Only trouble I ever had with chewing tobacco was that...Tags: Detroit Tigers, Lefty Grove, Baseball, Bob Gibson, Robin Yount
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Five nostalgic books on baseball
My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...Tags: Baseball, Red Smith, Chicago Tribune, Alzheimer's Disease, Pittsburgh Pirates
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Roots of Florida Gulf Coast's tournament run trace back to Baltimore
The Cinderella team of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament hails from Florida, but its coaches have Maryland roots. Andy Enfield set scoring records at Johns Hopkins before he became head coach at Florida Gulf Coast, the darling of the...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Basketball, Florida Gulf Coast Eagles, Maryland Terrapins, Chicago Bulls
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Forcing the feds' hand on marijuana [Blowback]
In opposing HR 689, a bill by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) to federally reclassify marijuana as most other legal prescription drugs and remove oversight from the Drug Enforcement Administration and give it to the states, The Times states in its Feb. 28...Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Science, Heroin, Research
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And now, the rest of the story about Jerry Buss
It took several cups of coffee and a couple of hours one recent morning to realize there was still so much more to know about Jerry Buss. The coffee was shared with Bob Steiner, Buss' longtime public relations advisor and general confidant. We...
Tags: Kobe Bryant, John Jackson, Stu Lantz, Ollie Mack, Phil Jackson
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Rosenthal: This is the way to exit the stage right
Whatever you thought of Andrew Mason's high-wire act as chief executive of Groupon, you have to concede he nailed the landing. Fired from the company he conceived and co-founded less than five years ago, Mason on Thursday tweeted a link to a goodbye memo...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Richard Nixon, Companies and Corporations, Chicago Tribune Columnists, White House
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Michael McMahon
Michael D. McMahon, age 64 of Belle Fourche, died Sunday February 10th, 2013 at the Sanford Select Specialty Hospital in Sioux Falls, following a short fight against ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Funeral services will be held 10:30 am Friday February...
Tags: Nebraska Cornhuskers, High School Sports, Ryder Cup, Lou Gehrig's Disease
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“Super Bowl Today” schedule on CBS
Channel Guide MagazineSuper Bowl Today schedule on CBS begins at 2pm ET on Sunday, Feb. 3, with four hours of features leading up to the kickoff of Super Bowl XLVII. Also, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley interviews President Barack Obama live from the White House at 4:... -
Lloyd Waters: The Super Bowl and an ALS problem
“Winning isn’t everything, but it sure beats coming in second.” That famous quote was often used by Bear Bryant as he coached and made a perennial winner out of the University of Alabama football team. Bryant and his players won 323...Tags: Football, Barack Obama, Baltimore Ravens, Wes Welker, Health and Safety at Work
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Cal Ripken to address University of Maryland grads
University of Maryland, College Park students can expect a home run from their spring graduation speaker. Orioles great Cal Ripken Jr. will deliver the commencement speech at the May 19 ceremony, the university announced Tuesday. "As a Marylander I am...
Tags: Students, College Baseball, Baseball, University of Maryland, College Park, Sports
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