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DIED. Johnny Sain, 89, right-handed pitcher for the Boston Braves immortalized in a rhyme turned national catchphrase; in Downers Grove, Ill. Sain, the last pitcher to face Babe Ruth, and Braves left-hander Warren Spahn were deemed so crucial to the team's successful campaign for the 1948 National League pennant that a lyric was born: "Spahn and Sain, pray for rain." Sain later became a visionary teacher, stressing the mental side of pitching and inspiring accolades from players like Jim Bouton, who dubbed him "the greatest pitching coach who ever lived...
...include the fact that the pair’s yards-per-carry are right on par and that defenses are better and faster in the 21st century. But that’s all hooey. A record is a record is a record. I know Maris had more games than Ruth, and Dickerson had more than O.J., but we remember this, the same way we’ll remember that Bonds had more chemistry than Aaron. No need to annotate...
...dubbed “the world’s richest man” in 1948 by Life magazine. As an illegitimate child, she spent her first seven years in a modest three-bedroom house just a few minutes away from her father’s mansion. Her mother, Ruth Ray, raised Swanee and her three siblings as the offspring of a fictitious husband with the surname “Wright.” Life as a single mother and woman of faith was difficult in 1950s Dallas, Texas...
Three years after it was appointed by Brown’s president, Ruth J. Simmons, a task force has released a report that documents how Brown benefited financially from the slave trade and how it can atone for its past—by constructing a memorial and creating a center dedicated to the study of racial issues...
...offer a bit of everything: it's a cooking show, a travelogue, a history and anthropology show. Each episode hopscotches to a new country, visiting restaurants and homes, chatting up average people and experts on food's role in the culture. A segment on international ingredients with Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl is a little elementary-- to viewers raised on the Food Network, oyster sauce is no longer exotic--but the show is a fast, info-packed study in how the world comes to your plate...