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...baseball fans, but most of all for the citizens of Baltimore. He's theirs. Always was, for 21 years. It's an anomaly in today's sporting culture that a player could span his entire Hall of Fame career in one city. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens - all traveling salesmen by comparison. We cheer uniforms, not players (who can keep track?) these days, but Ripken made it easy to be an Orioles...
...worth more than Manning's, owing to my being real. So I figured I'd publish a small, photocopied newspaper called Film Times, sell subscriptions to the major studios for $50,000 a year and fill the page with lots of quotes from me and people with names like Roger Ebert and Richard Corliss. Unfortunately, when I ran my plan by Roger Ebert, the owner of a sign company in Lewisville, N.C., he declined. "I wouldn't have time to fool with that right now," he said. When I asked if I could use that quote, he said...
...worth more than Manning's, owing to my being real. So I figured I'd publish a small, photocopied newspaper called Film Times, sell subscriptions to the major studios for $50,000 a year and fill the page with lots of quotes from me and people with names like Roger Ebert and Richard Corliss. Unfortunately, when I ran my plan by Roger Ebert, the owner of a sign company in Lewisville, N.C., he declined. "I wouldn't have time to fool with that right now," he said. When I asked if I could use that quote, he said...
...frame and his open stance, and thought the same thing: inside heat. But Ichiro, a quick-wristed, fast-out-of-the-box slap hitter with excellent bat control, will not be bullied. In a recent Mariners' victory against the defending champion Yankees, ace right-hander Roger Clemens threw a wicked 150 km/h splitter that broke near Ichiro's knees. No matter. Ichiro grazed the ball with the tip of his bat, sending it rolling down the third-base line for a double. (Typical of the way he has helped manufacture runs since Opening Day, when he keyed a game-winning...
Competitive sports can be amazing entertainment, and it can also be amazingly frustrating. Playing to win brings out the best in athletes, but it also means that all of those athletes, at some point, are going to lose. Roger Angell of The New Yorker believes that baseball is the best sport because, as in life itself, there is more failure than success. After all, even the best hitters in the Major Leagues only reach base three out of 10 at-bats. There is more Met than Yankee in all of us, as Angell says. That statement, so true after last...