Word: ramone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were streaks to follow, records to break, no-hitters to pitch, standings to watch and stories to write. There was Cal Ripken, Ramon Martinez, Albert Belle, the Red Sox atop the AL East and the Cleveland Indians clinching their first division title in 41 years...
...Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York, Sylvester Monroe/San Ramon and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...Ramon Martinez too was becoming more concerned about his friend. Watching Koernke buy uniforms and accessories at gun shows, he says, sometimes made him think Koernke was "outfitting his own squad." Once, he says, Koernke asked him if he would like to take part in some military drills -- with live ammunition. Another time, Martinez dropped by the house to find Koernke with a couple of teenagers. "He was talking tactics to them, fixing them up with gear, like they were soldiers. But they weren't soldiers. I didn't really want to know any of them...
...suggesting, and I wasn't prepared to get in a discussion with him. So I brushed him off. That conversation really bugged the hell out of me. I remember thinking, This guy is way out there. He's not just eccentric anymore. It was like, Wake up, Ramon, this guy is a nut roll." Martinez never talked to Koernke again...
From somewhere in Mark Koernke's dissatisfying past, a lone voice muses. Ramon Martinez remarks, "I looked at home, and I realized I've got a wedding picture with him in it. He stood up for me. I was the best man at his wedding. I was godfather for his daughter. I mean, I knew the guy. I thought I did, anyway...