Word: shortstops
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...beauty and the States won a stunner, 4-0. The Cubans had never lost the Olympic gold. The last scene was precious: Fat old Tommy Lasorda - remember? from the Dodgers? - waddling out, tears in his eyes, to celebrate with his kids, who were in a big pile out by shortstop. NBC showed you that, right...
...Ripken, Jr., arguably the best shortstop of the last two decades, decided on Sunday to end his major league record of consecutive games played by pulling himself from the Baltimore Orioles' lineup shortly before the team's final home game of the season versus the New York Yankees...
DIED. CLYDE SUKEFORTH, 98, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, coach and scout who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947; in Waldoboro, Maine. Dodgers president Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...
...This season, the Crimson hit just .258 as a team, the lowest mark in the Ivy League. Only one of the regular Harvard starters, sophomore shortstop Mark Mager, batted above...
...WOODS, golf superstar, Nike spokesman--and Screen Actors Guild member--refused to cross the picket line to shoot a Nike commercial at the Isleworth Country Club in Orlando, Fla., his home course. Nike hopes to reschedule; Woods says he won't budge. Two days later, Boston Red Sox star shortstop Nomar Garciaparra canceled a Dunkin' Donuts shoot at Fenway, his home ballpark. And director John Waters would not cross the line in Brooklyn to appear in a commercial for Internet site More.com Now maybe they're all sharing a beer with the guys from the "Whassup...