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...handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess matches in Atlanta between Torre and Braves skipper Bobby Cox, each ending in mate for Torre. There was drama on the field--the pitcher's duel between probable Cy Young Award winners Andy Pettitte and John Smoltz--and off the field--Frank Torre getting a new heart on the off day before Game 6. There was the quiet goodbye to Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, a ballpark distinguished not by architecture but by its history of great...
...Yankees, meanwhile, are thin in the starting rotation (manager Joe Torre is considering using a three-man rotation of David Cone, Andy Pettitte, and Jimmy Key) but have perhaps the best bullpen in baseball. All of which you would think would make for a rather mundane, pitcher's duel series that should favor Atlanta. But at least half of the games will be played in New York, where fans tend to enter into the field of play, and anything can happen. Play ball! -->
...curse, gerontologists are pursuing two different strategies to retard the aging process. The preventive approach accepts biological aging as nature's given but believes attendant disease, disability and decline can be delayed or staved off through exercise, diet and medical advances. The more radical strategy challenges nature to a duel by aiming to halt or reverse degeneration in the body's cells...
...Like a duel between Roger Clemens and Mo Vaughan, the Weld/Kerry race matches two of the most accomplished, visible and popular figures in Massachusetts head to head...
...Like a duel between Roger Clemens and Mo Vaughan, the Weld/Kerry race matches two of the most accomplished, visible and popular figures in Massachusetts head to head...