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While three of baseball's division series slumbered to their conclusions this weekend, the real drama was played out in Cleveland, this time in a game starring Sandy Alomar as The Natural. Down to their last four outs, Indians fans were preparing their "wait until next year" speeches when the Cleveland catcher quickly deposited Mariano Rivera's 2-0 fastball into the right field stands at Jacobs field. An inning later, Omar Vizquel singled in the winning run and stretched the series to a fifth and deciding game tonight...
...Cleveland fans (or Yankee haters, of which there are doubtless many): go with Major League (1989), while the matchup lasts. It's nostalgia-free, and good comedy as well. (And as far as Charlie Sheen and Wesley Snipes go, you just won't do much better...
Baltimore at Seattle, 4:07 p.m., ESPN Cleveland at New York...
...Tonight, two teams that have dominant closers (New York, Baltimore) take on two that don't (Cleveland, Seattle) but are glad they didn't answer Reinsdorf's phone calls this summer...
When Black was in eighth grade, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and he started hanging out in the labs at Case Western Reserve University. By high school, he was performing organ transplants and heart-valve replacements in dogs. At 17 he was a semifinalist in the national Westinghouse science competition for his research on the damage done to red blood cells in patients with heart-valve replacements. That year he was accepted in a University of Michigan six-year program that offered degrees in biomedical science and medicine...