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...Payout Harvard finally realizes that money can't buy you love, no matter how much you hoard. Good. Go spend it on something worthwhile. Bill Gates Gives $100 million for child immunizations in developing countries. Nice try, but you're still the world's richest dork. Dan Duquette Red Sox GM a loser in the free agent bidding war. Looks like the Sox won't be contenders again 'till the next millenium. Method Man Wu-Tang Clan disciple leaves the Shaolin ghetto for ritzy Cambridge. Future Class Day speaker...
Poor, poor Red Sox fans. We at Dartboard were saddened this week to hear that Mo Vaughn, the Hub's favorite slugger, has decided not to return to the Sox for the 1999 season after spending his entire pro career with the team. Big Mo, who hit 40 homers last season and finished second by a hair in the American League batting race, was offered a none-too-shabby $62.5 million over 5 years to stay in Beantown, but apparently has had it with finishing second to the mighty Yankees...
...Boston, the loss is immense. Vaughn's bulky presence behind the plate brought the fans to life game after game; when he stepped to the plate, there was reason to hope that the Sox might steal a game--might even, eventually, steal a World Series title for the first time since the end of World War I. With Vaughn gone, there will only be more sadness among Boston's long-suffering faithful...
...collection of letters, pictures and other memorabilia of baseball's darkest time--the 1919 "Black Sox Scandal"--was sold by Christie's to various buyers for upwards...
...collection belonged to "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, the Chicago White Sox outfielder who was banned from baseball for life, along with seven teammates, for throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds...