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...think that Professor Fried, as he goes to the bench, will remember a lot of the things that happened in the process," Kelly-Gay said. "We had a long conversation after the vote, and I'm sure he will remember some of the testimony, and his decisions will be better because...
...thus can be excused for botching the occasional signal. "There was one time when the runner was coming into third base from second and I neglected to tell him to stop," Wulf says. "He ran right over third base and into the opposing team's bench, where he was tagged...
...years ago. If you pitch 59 consecutive shutout innings or hit in 56 straight games, you are on a streak. But if you play so long that 3,695 other major leaguers have gone on the disabled list since the last time you spent an entire game on the bench, so continuously that more than 50 million fans have seen nobody but you start the game at your position, you are not on a streak. You are on a river, a long, meandering river like, say, the Susquehanna, which begins its 444-mile journey in Cooperstown, New York, the purported...
...ankle on a pick-off play in the third inning. Although he continued playing, his ankle was badly swollen and discolored after the game. Fortunately, the Orioles had scheduled an exhibition game against the Naval Academy the next day. The second near-miss came as a result of a bench-clearing melee with the Seattle Mariners during game No. 1,790 in June of '93. Ripken twisted his knee, and when he woke up the next morning, he couldn't put his weight on it. He told his wife Kelly he might not be able to play that night. According...
...want to be a judge out of love for ourliberty, our laws and our constitution," Friedsaid in his opening remarks on Tuesday, accordingto the Boston Globe. He pledged that he would cometo the bench "with no project, no agenda--only tolisten to the arguments in each case as it comesbefore...