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...best-of-seven series. But Boston's Dave Henderson hit a stunning two-run home run off Angels reliever Donnie Moore to give Boston a 6-5 lead. The Red Sox won that game, and the next two, to take the pennant. Tragically, Moore never got over that one pitch to Henderson. He committed suicide in 1989. "That home run killed him," said his agent...
...Call Texas the Lone Rangers - the Rays have now purged themselves from that list. If we're lucky, maybe Tampa Bay - or Boston, or Philly, or L.A. - will write the next chapter of LCS lore. And deliver another fall classic, before the Fall Classic sees its first pitch...
Each of the volume's seven chapters hammers on a theme, be it people, learning from mistakes or social responsibility (Branson code for saving the world). Important, even noble, topics. But thanks to Peter Drucker, Jim Collins and that gang, you should already know what Branson will pitch: Hire smart men and women. Deliver what you promise. Creative destruction is the soul food of any enterprise. Give back to the community...
...displays pitch-black blacks, consumes less power than a similarly sized TV and has the widest color gamut of any display ever made," he said. The reds, he noted, were a case in point. Put the LaserVue alongside Dorfman's lcd, and his reds would look orange. Indeed, the LaserVue comes closer than any TV before it to reproducing the colors one sees in a film in a movie theater. Mitsubishi, which has a lock on the technology so far, is working on a 73-in. (185 cm) LaserVue. Merson said prices (and screen sizes) would doubtless diminish over time...
...worse comes to worse, she says she will clear out her garden shed, toss out the toys ("The last batch of kids that went through here were my great-grandkids"), and pitch a tent in the back yard if the city lets her. "If God is with me, I'll be fine. The only prayer I want people to pray for me is that God will give me the strength to do what I have to do - no more that," she says...