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...course, there is a third option. The major and minor leagues could begin to allow the use of aluminum. A person needs to go no further than to imagine Cal Ripken Jr. actually hitting .300 to realize that this would be a mad, radical, and lamentable experiment...
...filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
Logic argues that, sooner or later, player salaries have to eclipse revenues for small-market clubs. In the past decade, baseball salaries have escalated nearly as fast as inflation in Russia. The going rate to re-sign superstars who anchor a franchise (Kirby Puckett with the Minnesota Twins, Cal Ripken with the Orioles) has doubled in the past two years, from $3 million to $6 million a season. Up until now, most owners have managed to keep ahead of their exploding payrolls thanks to ever rising franchise values, a threefold leap in marketing revenues, a 25% jump in ball-park...
This is excusable because the coaches are geniuses, and thus fragile. And, of course, because they are paid as much at a typical university as the entire chemistry department. They are great personages, feudal barons only nominally under the control of college presidents. Cal Berkeley astounded the civilized world by firing a coach named Lou Campanelli for yelling at his players in a manner deemed insensitive. Much agitated discussion followed. Had the university lost its sense of values or, worse, its hope of national television? Were its ballplayers men or New Age mollycoddles...
...never joined the people gathering in front of the clinic. Instead, he made his way to a small parking lot behind the building. After Gunn drove up, parked and walked slowly away from his car, Griffin shot him three times in the back with a .38-cal. pistol. He then dropped his weapon, approached a police officer and said, "I just shot someone, and he's laying behind the building." Gunn died roughly two hours later...