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DIED. TUG MCGRAW, 59, intensely competitive left-hander whose relief-pitching prowess helped the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies capture World Series championships; of brain cancer; in Nashville. A crowd favorite known for his boyish enthusiasm, he coined the Mets' battle cry "You gotta believe!" during the 1973 National League pennant race. After notching 180 saves in a 20-year career, he went on to work as a TV sportscaster and wrote three children's books...
...relief work took an emotional toll on the medical team as well...
...Emotionally, it’s really hard to see that level of suffering. It’s beyond imagining. I’m not even sure how I feel about it,” said Goodman, whose trip to Iran was her first time doing relief work in a foreign country. “We’re seeing children brought in by a relative, because their entire family had been destroyed except for this one relative,” Waltzman said...
...Iranians were aware that the doctors were spending their New Year’s providing medical relief...
After leaving Iran, the Boston-based disaster relief team donated all its supplies for a long-term hospital...