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...image out of my mind: "Mr. McGwire, I think I have something that belongs to you," 22-year-old Tim Forneris, a part-time grounds keeper for the St. Louis Cardinals, proudly decreed last fall as he handed over home-run ball No. 62--and with it probably the most expensive thing he would ever hold. Consider: a few weeks ago, a mysterious bidder paid $3 million to the guy who auctioned off home-run ball No. 70. I don't mean to pick on Forneris. Giving up the baseball was an honorable gesture. And he did get some fame...
DIED. LEONARD RIESER, 76, physicist; in Lebanon, N.H. Rieser worked on the Manhattan Project and recently retired as chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where he was keeper of the Doomsday Clock, moving the minute hand to reflect the threat of nuclear peril...
...century's turn, Dow died, Jones sold out, and in came the new owners: Jessie Waldron Barron, a prim Boston boardinghouse keeper; and her insatiable journalist husband, who persuaded her to put up the $2,500 down payment. Clarence Walker Barron, 5 ft. 5 in. and 300 lbs. in his prime, was a high-living, big-investing champion of unrestrained capitalism who improved the Journal's standards while ordering up stories promoting companies whose shares he owned...
...several Harvard players streakingforward on a break, she took a ball from seniorback Jaime Chu, saw a clear shot at the net, woundup and fired as the keeper was leaving the box.Foster's intention was to kick it towards the farpost to her left, but with the field and the balldampened from the morning's rains, the ballcareened off the side of her cleat and found itsway into the right corner of the goal...
Berman sent a shot towards the right post thatReginio blocked just to her left. Literallywaiting in the wings, however, was junior BethZotter, who nudged the ball by the keeper and justin front of the goal where the well-positionedMiller trickled...