Word: fathers
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...Anyway, when the Sox nailed the coffin shut that day, pulling within three of the Yanks and sending a shiver back in Manhattan, I called the folks from a pay phone. "I told your father you'd be calling," Mom said in answering the phone. ?"Isn't it unbelievable!" So she's aboard again, riding with us to whatever it is that fate and the Yankees have in store this time...
...legs in 1986, giving the New York Mets life and, ultimately, the championship. He's a player in this long psychodrama now, as are Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams ? some great baseball names. But this isn't about them. It's about Scott, my brother-in-law and father of my niece. Scott is not from Massachusetts and until recently wasn't even much of a baseball fan. His wife, Gail, my sister, is fiercely from Massachusetts, as are my brother, my father, my mother and myself. Scott married Gail and therefore married Massachusetts. He also married...
...father now myself. My father, for his part, is fourscore years-plus, hasn't missed a game all season on TV and has himself in fine post-season shape for this series against the Yanks. My friend John's father, who lives in Providence, is pretty sick, and has us all praying the Sox do it this year. Another John, in Andover, Mass., lost both his parents in the past few years, so it didn't happen in their lifetimes. But his wife Anne's mother, in Winchester, is going crazy over Pedro, and John and Anne have...
...Jesse was determined to become a guinea pig. "It made him feel good as a person," says his father Paul. "He said, 'Hey, this may be good for me, and I'll be helping newborn infants.' You know teenagers. They think they're going to live forever...
Jesse died on Sept. 17 in Philadelphia, just months after his father told him he was a hero and put him on a plane to the university. He could be the first patient to die because of gene therapy, although the only thing certain is that he died of multiple organ failure. Doctors immediately began an internal analysis. "I consider this trial over," says Dr. James Wilson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy...