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...previous 22 years, the field in Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) had been covered by that insult to both aesthetics and orthopedics, artificial turf. "We have nine different grasses at work here," George Toma, the Royals' ground-keeping consultant said last Wednesday, an hour before the first pitch of the season, in Kansas City. "Five bluegrass types-Princeton 104, Eclipse, Nassau, Glade and Suffolk-and four ryes-Derby, Gator, Regal and Top Hat. They act like a team. If one or two get sick, the others take over. Some are hardier than others; some are greener. That...
Although he was cruising through three innings, Davidson was on pitch count and was removed once he had thrown fifty pitches...
...hung a pitch in the fifth to give up the home run," Irving, who took the loss to fall to 3-4, said. "It was one awful pitch. You usually can get away with one. It was just one of those days...
After the longest off-season of the twentieth century,Major League baseball is back. It's been257 days since the last pitch was thrownin a big league game, and questions abound. While fans wonder if the out-of-practice players will be up to snuff, the owners and players are wondering if the fans will come back. Season ticket sales are lagging in some cities, and five teams have cut their average ticket price. TIME sports editor Steve Wulf says that although there are many reasons for the fans to be dissatisfied--a shorter than normal season, an umpire...
...property-tax caps and budget cutbacks, no child is entitled to much; these days state and local funding for education is stretched just to cover the basics. Class sizes are inching up; music, sports and other activities are being eliminated. In communities rich enough for parents to pitch in and pay for some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter...