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...first black pitcher to win a World Series game; of prostate cancer; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Black was playing in the Negro Leagues when the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson in 1945. At that point, the Plainfield, N.J., native later told an interviewer, "I started dreaming." He went on to pitch for the Cincinnati Reds and Washington Senators before retiring in 1957 with a career record...
...Faroe Islands' defense, victory on the playing field could be the only joy for Argentines for the next four years. Their hopes rest on stars like Lazio's lethal strike pair of Hernan Crespo and Claudio Lopez. Juan Sebastian Veron is capable of finding them anywhere on the pitch, and behind him is formidable Romanista Walter "the Wall" Samuel. Argentina easily won its qualifying group in South America, but now finds itself in the so-called Group of Death with England, Nigeria and Sweden. As Argentina boasts some of football's most ruthless butchers, it is well armed...
...demand for reform of Arafat's apparatus has been strongest among Palestinians themselves, and it has reached fever pitch amid the devastation left by Israel's "Operation Defensive Shield." The extent to which that demand has been echoed by the Bush administration, the Europeans and the key Arab League states has forced Arafat to respond by promising major, if undefined changes. And the fact that so much of the PA's infrastructure has been destroyed in the course of recent Israeli military actions makes changes unavoidable, since much of the PA has now to be rebuilt from the ground...
Crockett (6-3), who has long been the staff’s ace and workhorse, pitched a nine-inning, 137-pitch gem on his way to sixteen strikeouts. It would amount to a fairly average outing for Crockett, the Ivy co-Pitcher of the Year, except that he had thrown 125 pitches in a season-saving victory over Dartmouth just four days earlier...
While Crockett’s performance was characteristically impressive because it concluded a four-day span that saw him pitch 18 innings, Nyweide had thrown just 6.2 innings with a 9.45 ERA in his last two starts...