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...Cleveland, Ohio, nor anywhere else in the green cathedrals of what Annie Savoy in Bull Durham called "the Church of Baseball." The 1994 major league season may have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their long- dreaded strike, baseball's eighth work stoppage since...
...odds, she swept through to the finals, vanquishing veterans and prodigies alike. Meanwhile Graf fell out in the first round, and second-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 22, was sent to the sidelines in the fourth. Navratilova could be forgiven last Saturday if she was overcome with the urge to pinch herself. For there she was on Centre Court again, playing for an unprecedented 10th ladies' singles title against third- seeded Conchita Martinez, 22, a baseline basher from Barcelona, Spain...
Whether they're putting their paychecks in or taking cash out, Americans like Gordon are increasingly feeling the pinch as U.S. banks raise their fees for everything from bounced checks to automated cash transactions. To recoup profits lost to bad loans as well as to aggressive rivals like money-market funds that offer their own checking accounts, commercial banks nearly doubled their service charges between 1985 and 1992, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG), a Washington-based consumer lobby. Even the victims of bad checks must now routinely shell out fees for the pain of having been...
With the score 5-5, Mike Cicero, coming off a scoreless five-inning relief stint against Boston College in which he earned the win, took the mound for the bottom of the seventh. With one out, he walked Mike Kersten, who was pinch-run for by Nick Ubaldo...
Neither team scored in the last three regulation innings, setting the stage for Harvard's tenth-inning heroics. Junior Joe Weidenbach, pinch-hitting for Dennis Doble, led off the inning by reaching second on a two base error. After freshman Terry Hurt pinch ran for him, freshman Mike Hochanadel walked...