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Kropf’s older brother Andy played college baseball for the Commodores. He has spent time in the Detroit Tigers organization and was invited to Tigers’ spring training as a non-roster player in mid-January...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Torn Labrum Sidelines Baseball's Hordon | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

Former Crimson ace John Birtwell ’01 was named the Detroit Tigers’ Minor League Co-Pitcher of the Year last September after a 58-game relief stint with Class A Western Michigan. Birtwell went 7-2 with a 1.59 ERA and struck out 101 batters in 79.1 innings… With Lentz back in the lineup and a sudden, unprecedented logjam at catcher, Walsh has worked Mann out at first base and Lentz in left field to make a platoon situation possible… The Crimson will open its season during spring break against several Florida...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Torn Labrum Sidelines Baseball's Hordon | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...running shoes - that form its base are loosely packed around the blades of "grass," providing a softer cushion than real dirt. The new surfaces are growing fast in the U.S., where demand on municipal fields is almost unceasing. American football teams are also enthusiastic. Four NFL stadiums - in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle - use synthetic turf, and several others, including Giants Stadium, outside New York City and home to two NFL teams, are considering it. Almost 200 synthetic fields will be laid in the U.S. this year, compared with fewer than 50 in 1999. And more than 20 U.S. companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Turf Conscious | 1/26/2003 | See Source »

...also made out like, um, bandits), but he put them over the hump after they stalled in the playoffs four of the last five years. Now Tampa Bay has wiggled out of the undistinguished group of franchises that have never advanced to the Super Bowl: Arizona, Carolina, Cleveland, Detroit, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Seattle. Considering only one of those teams, Cleveland, even made the playoffs this season, it's no stretch to say they'd all accept a similar deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl XXXVII Preview | 1/23/2003 | See Source »

...fields will be laid in the U.S. alone this year, compared with fewer than 50 in 1999. Public schools and parks in Europe and the U.S. now use the new synthetic surface, as do top European soccer teams such as Britain's Manchester United. The Motor City Bowl in Detroit and the Seattle Bowl were played on the synthetic grass this year, and at least 20 colleges have made the switch. Four NFL stadiums--in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle--use synthetic grass, and several others, including Giants Stadium, outside New York City, are considering it. "You don't even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Turf Conscious | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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