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LOSERS BRAVES PITCHER GREG MADDUX $28 million contract, a Cy Young -- and he chokes in N.L. final...
Favre, 38, is certainly not the first athlete to flip-flop on bidding farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens, the king of comebacks, has retired a total of three times. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer and returned to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles. Other stars have re-emerged to save a struggling franchise, like Michael Jordan, who proclaimed his 1995 return to the Chicago Bulls after a failed bid at pro baseball with a two-word press release: "I'm back." The deathless Rocky franchise aside, the "sweet science" seems to specialize...
...They're maybe the greatest corporate citizen this community ever had," says Al Hrabosky, a local celebrity whose biography is a testament to the omnipresence of A-B in St. Louis lives. Known as the "Mad Hungarian" for his antics on the mound, Hrabosky was a star relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals back when the Busch family owned the storied ball club. (The two-year-old downtown ballpark is still known as Busch Stadium, though Busch sold the club in 1995.) "A-B brought me to this city, where I married a St. Louis girl, settled down...
...delighted in scooping me and I felt the same way when I scooped him. When you slipped one past ol' Russert, you felt as though you had hit a home run off the best pitcher in the league." - Bob Schieffer, host of CBS News' "Face the Nation...
These stories are not about me:In May 2007, the Harvard softball team drew regional host Hofstra for its opening game of the NCAA Tournament and sent newly minted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick to the circle. With one beatable team and one powerhouse joining them in the round-robin, picking up a W against the Pride would be the key to the Crimson advancing in the tournament.Madick, dueling with Hofstra’s ace, cruised through the first three frames allowing only one hit before surrendering a go-ahead solo homer in the bottom...