Word: freds
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...time Cal Sr. was given the Orioles' Double-A team in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1972, the kids were old enough to help out--Ellie as the scoreboard keeper, Junior as the bat boy, Fred as a clubhouse attendant and Billy as the ball boy. "I think that's where I first picked up my work ethic," says Cal Jr. "My dad did everything. He was not only the manager but also the pitching coach, the batting coach, the batting-practice pitcher, the ground keeper. And when he wasn't on the field, he was talking baseball." Cal Sr., whose...
Unofficially, the Streak probably began in the late '60s in the basement of the Ripken household, by then in Aberdeen, Maryland. Says Vi Ripken, the matriarch of the Ripken clan (daughter Ellen, sons Cal Jr., Fred and Billy): "I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard 'Just one more game, Mom.' The kids would be playing Ping-Pong in the basement, and it was always a struggle to get them to come upstairs for dinner, and even more of a struggle to get them to go to bed. Nobody liked to end the night on a loss...
...concern that consumers would suffer from the high prices and cultural limitations that sometimes come with big concentrations of power. "The good news is, these large companies bring the kind of horsepower, creative force and technological advances that one would hope would create a better universe," says Fred Roberts, president of a Los Angeles investment-banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions. "On the other hand, it's going to make individuals and entrepreneurs irrelevant because no one is going to be able to compete with these behemoths." Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, ranking Democrat on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, puts...
...McVeigh, says the newly-announced discovery of an unidentified leg in the rubble of Alfred P. Murrah building mayhelp prove his client's innocence. Jones says the leg could have belonged to the real bomber, who failed to get away in time after setting the bomb. Oklahoma medical examiner Fred Jordan today confirmed that investigators have found a leg, clad in a sock and black military style boot, that can not be matched to any ofthe other victims of the blast. Meanwhile, officials say they will hand down indictments of McVeigh and Terry Nichols by the end of the week...
...week [People, July 10]. The spectacle of an African-American hooker caught in a sex act with a wealthy, white rising star is a Hollywood press agent's dream come true. The bottom line: "Please spell my name correctly, H-U-G-H G-R-A-N-T.'' FRED GERHAUSER San Carlos, California Via America Online...