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...needs a stock portfolio when you've got baseball memorabilia? Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball (not even the one that broke Ruth's record) set its own record at auction last week. But don't bet the farm on your signed Hank Aaron mitt yet. It's a steep drop to the next nine highest prices paid for sports memorabilia at public auction...
...star in the National Basketball Association, has left the game. But no one is irreplaceable. News of Jordan's retirement broke the same day that baseballs hit by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were auctioned off for far more than balls hit by all-time home run king Hank Aaron and former single season home-run leaders Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. This is a vast and rich nation full of talented people in all fields who keep turning up as the years go by. After the tears in Chicago have dried, we will remember that no one is ever...
Also on the auction block is the ball that Hank Aaron (remember him?) pounded out of Fulton County Stadium more than 20 years ago to set the all-time home run record. Got your checkbook ready? Put it back in your pocket, big shot: Unless you've already mailed in your financial statements proving you have at least $100,000 to drop on a slightly used Spalding, Guernsey's doesn't want to hear from you. Still, you can watch the action online, which at these prices is probably the safest thing...
...sprint events. Kevin Worrell won the 55-meter hurdles and placed second in the 55-meter dash. Classmate Sam Hornblower won the 200 while Nnamdi Okike won the 400. In the field events, freshman David Grimm won his event--the 35-pound throw--and classmate Aaron Snead led the way in a Harvard sweep of the pole vault...
...STEPHEN HOUGH New York Variations (Hyperion) England's most imaginative pianist pays tribute to America's finest solo piano music, including Aaron Copland's Piano Variations, composed 68 years ago but still as up to date as a news flash, and the debut recording of George Tsontakis' Ghost Variations, a forceful, boldly conceived virtuoso showpiece headed for a concert hall near...