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For former Oriole Superstar Frank Robinson, who is now with the California Angels, the return to Baltimore's Memorial Stadium for the first time in two years was something of a homecoming. Less than two miles away, however, Johns Hopkins University was host to Navy in another homecoming game...
Ever since the ancient Indian game was introduced in Baltimore, it has been as much a local institution as crab cakes and H.L. Mencken. Each spring the city's schoolboys break out their lacrosse sticks the way kids in other cities limber up with Louisville Sluggers. At Johns Hopkins...
The modern version of the game follows the spirit if not the rules of the old tribal pastime. Called lacrosse by French missionaries because the curved hickory sticks reminded them of a bishop's crosier, the game as played by Iroquois braves or Blue Jay undergrads is more riot...
At most Johns Hopkins' homecomings, the old grads gather in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, which is attached to the fieldhouse, guzzle National Bohemian beer and reminisce about the glory years, like 1932 when the Blue Jays won the Olympic lacrosse title in Los Angeles before a throng of...
For Thomas, whose father is a high school lacrosse coach in the Baltimore area, it was back to the drawing board -the family's dining-room table in Towson, Md. There, like retired British officers re-enacting the Boer War, the Thomases use ten salt shakers to diagram new...