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Baseball memorabilia is having an MVP year. Last week three new treasures were made: Mark McGwire's career homer No. 500, and Tony Gwynn's and Wade Boggs' career hits No. 3,000. Grab one of those balls, and it will be the biggest hit of your life too. The McGwire ball is a certain smash. Months before Big Mac launched his historic bomb, memorabilia dealer Mike Barnes of Festus, Mo., offered $100,000 as an immediate cash advance to the fan who recovered it. Barnes plans to auction the ball. The fan will get the proceeds, which Barnes estimates...
...dentures and a lock of Babe Ruth's hair, will rake in an estimated $45 million at auction next month. Baseball memorabilia has never been more dear, owing to a tidal wave of enthusiasm for the sport that stems in large part from last year's Sammy and Mark show--airing again this year...
Your item listing the salaries of various heads of state [NOTEBOOK, June 7] said the President of Costa Rica earns $250,000 a year. That figure is completely off the mark. The yearly salary of Costa Rica's President amounts to $98,036--including an allowance for expenses. The President does not live in a house paid for by the government but in his private residence. In addition, all household expenditures are paid from his personal income. JAIME DAREMBLUM, AMBASSADOR Embassy of Costa Rica Washington...
MARRIED. RORY KENNEDY, 30, filmmaker and youngest child of Robert F. Kennedy, to writer MARK BAILEY, 30; in Athens, Greece. The wedding, originally planned for July 17 in Hyannis Port, Mass., was postponed after the deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn and her sister, Lauren Bessette...
...long as everybody knows the rules. That?s the message a group of state securities regulators is sending in a new report on day trading released Tuesday. According to the regulators, some day-trading firms -- including All-Tech, one of the companies used by Atlanta gunman Mark O. Barton -- have not only been under-disclosing to clients the risks associated with this very risky business, but also have been arranging trader-to-trader loans, thus ensuring the flow of commissions while the trader, often, sinks deeper into debt. Such loans, said Massachusetts regulator William Galvin, are brokered "using the same...