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...June 16 at age 87, knew he'd found his passion. As a teen, the Indiana native traveled across the country, pitching for minor league teams until World War II intervened. In 1944, during his 34th mission as a P-38 fighter pilot, Shepard was gunned down outside Berlin. When he awoke days later behind German lines, his leg had been amputated to save his life. The loss did not dampen Shepard's love for baseball. On his return to the U.S. in 1945, he earned a spot with the then Washington Senators, pitching batting practice and exhibition games--boosting...
...drama of the game got a boost when powerful electrical storms knocked out broadcasts for more than six minutes during the second half across most of Central Europe. In Berlin, fans at a Kreuzberg beer garden where both Turks and Germans had gathered to watch the game on an outdoor screen huddled around their mobile phones to follow the game on the tiny radios...
...horns started sounding in the streets of Berlin eight hours before the opening whistle blew. For the better part of a week, German black, red and gold flags sprouted from car windows, clothes lines, window sills right across Germany. In Berlin, the schnell-bahn rapid transit line was taken over by chanting fans, draped in national colors, swigging half-liter bottles of beer and singing for their team's victory. A half a million Berliners converged on the Brandenburg Gate in the historic center of the old capital to watch the game on giant screens. As in 2006, when Berlin...
...which also happens to be the fatherland of Germany's largest minority, a 2.5 million strong community descended from gastarbeiter who were invited to what was then West Germany from Turkey as laborers in the 1960s. For Wednesday night's game, Turkish fans gathered across Germany in neighborhoods like Berlin's Kreuzberg to wave the crimson flag (Turkey itself was awash in red) and root for their team. The Turkish President, Abdullah Gul, traveled to Basel for the game, sitting a seat away from the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, both heads of state grinning happily when their team scored...
...toward Muslims.) Fears that the game would lead to unrest grew when some cars flying Turkish flags had their tires slashed. That did not dampen Turkish enthusiasm. As the game went on, the Turks, despite their inferior numbers, were outshouting their German brothers, at least on the streets of Berlin, chanting "Red and White, Red and White, Turkey! Turkey...