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Harvard men’s hockey’s 110th captain hails from Maryland—he’s lived there since he was four—and back home, No. 8 belongs to Cal (Ripken, Jr.), not Carl (Yastrzemski). Babe Ruth wasn’t lost in 1919 (when Boston dealt him to the New York Yankees), but in 1914 (when Baltimore dealt him to Boston). Sundays belong to the Redskins, not the Patriots, and Maryland crabs trump Boston chowder every time...
...agencies and between the city and community agencies,” said Assistant City Manager for Human Services Ellen Semonoff. The winners were chosen by a selection panel comprised of national leaders from a variety of fields, including United Way of America President Brian Gallagher and baseball legend Cal Ripken, Jr. Communities submitted applications outlining their commitment to kids and young adults. This was the competition’s first year, and McGill said America’s Promise hopes that other communities will rethink their own youth-based programs. “We want to hold [the winners...
...because he habitually began his seasons at about the same speed as the news departs Missouri, Leonard was never called to any All-Star games. Away at his quickest pace in May 1983, the invincible-looking pitcher with the pirate-red mustache was dispatching a routine strike to Cal Ripken of Baltimore when Leonard's left knee (his landing leg) imploded and he disappeared. As sport usually calculates these things, this scarcely qualified as tragedy, even when lengthy surgeries and lost summers followed one after the other. Besides the memory of nearly 2,000 honorable if unheralded innings, Leonard...
You’ve heard the hogwash—that Ripken, McGwire and Sosa rescued the game of baseball from the depths of the 1994 MLB players’ strike; that, without a baby Jordan, basketball remains in danger; that the early exit strategies of star college ballers render amateur athletics obsolete...
...Other pieces I?ve written for TIME.com have generated larger, more heated responses. My comments on Halle Berry?s Oscar speech cued a couple hundred angry, anguished, articulate e-mails that I answered, directly and indirectly, in four subsequent TOFs. A column suggesting that Cal Ripken?s 16-year playing streak didn?t entitle him to hero status stoked another couple hundred comments, most of them dismissive. Last month?s piece on the liberal media?s contempt for Mel Gibson and his Jesus movie provoked a heavenly host of e-mails - more than 400 in the first three days - from...