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...pitcher John Rocker. I wonder what GM John Scherholtz's salesman schtick...
...less serious but still somber note, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker received a two-and-a-half-month suspension and $20,000 fine Monday for his recent tirade against immigrants and minorities. And that's just in the last couple of days. Last month 23-year-old Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins was arrested for breaking and entering, while Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills killed himself drag-racing Porsches with a teammate...
DIED. BOB LEMON, 79, unflappable Hall of Fame pitcher; in Long Beach, Calif. His sensational sinker catapulted the Cleveland Indians to victory in the 1948 World Series. A seven-time All-Star, Lemon signed a "lifetime contract" with the New York Yankees after managing them to a World Series...
...better to be ruled unhinged than to be perceived as an appalling racist? Last week Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig ordered Atlanta Braves pitcher JOHN ROCKER to undergo psychological testing for racist, xenophobic and homophobic remarks the pitcher made in a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED interview last month. Calling Rocker's comments "reprehensible" and "inexcusable," Selig says he will wait for the results of the tests before deciding how the southpaw reliever should be disciplined. Rocker agreed to start the testing immediately. Evidence that he might be somewhat disturbed surfaced during last fall's National League championship series when the Braves...
...time she sits for her portrait, Greit is a budding connoisseur. Standing, dustrag in hand, before her employer's paintings, she begins to have small epiphanies: "The pitcher and basin...became yellow, and brown, and green, and blue. They reflected the pattern of the rug, the girl's bodice, the blue cloth draped over the chair--everything but their true silver color. And yet they looked as they should, like a pitcher and a basin... After that I could not stop looking at things...