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Last week, in a 5-0 victory over the World Champion Oakland A's, Ryan pitched the sixth no-hit game of his career, two more than anyone else in baseball history. His strikeout total (5,152 after the Monday no-hitter) is more than a thousand higher than Steve Carlton's all-time second best. He has allowed the fewest hits per nine innings (6.56) of any player in the game. He has struck out 19 Hall of Famers, 44 Most Valuable Players and six father-son combinations. He is the first pitcher to throw no-hitters in three...
...each game is exhaustive; his dedication to the game is exemplary; his no-frills personality allows him to focus utterly on the craft of humiliating batters. This regimen helped spirit him off last month's disabled list, where he had languished with a bad back, and onto the Oakland mound last week. A healthy mind in a healthy body: as simple as one, two, three strikes...
When the trustees of Mills College announced three weeks ago that the only hope of saving the 138-year-old women's school in Oakland from a looming financial crisis would be to begin admitting undergraduate men next year, they were probably unprepared for the severity of the reaction. Students wept, boycotted classes and mounted noisy demonstrations, chanting, "Traitors!" and "Better dead than coed...
...Highland General Hospital in Oakland, Chuck Nacke found a horrific scene. Both trauma rooms were full for several hours. One doctor, soaked with sweat, massaged the hearts of two patients and later almost climbed onto the chest of a third in an attempt to restart his heartbeat. In the parking area outside, a car pulled up, a door opened and an inert body was dropped off. As the car drove away, nurses hurriedly wheeled the abandoned person inside, where he was treated. Staff members, says Nacke, are "stretched to the limit 24 hours...
...sport's highest payroll, including free-agent flop Mark Davis, has failed to produce a team strong enough to challenge the powerhouse Oakland...