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...play that lost the game came in the top of the tenth. Reliever Ron Steward seemed out of the inning when he got two quick outs, but he gave up a single to the seventh hitter and a walk to the eighth hitter...
...time or inclination to go inside a mosque; women frequently pray at home. Others perform the required ablutions and pray wherever they happen to be. A tennis pro in white shorts will place his racquet alongside the court at the sports club and say his prayers. An airline steward will spread out a towel in the corridor of a plane to pray. Workers in the fields will remove their boots at noon and kneel on pieces of cardboard. Mahmoud Hassan Sharaf, 76, a Bedouin who lives on the edge of the Sahara, explains the peace he finds in prayer...
Holcombe's courageous stand--at a time when he could not count on any union support--encouraged other workers to speak out against similar discrimination, and helped to publicize their rights as union members. Holcombe also served as the union chief shop steward and fought successfully to redress some of these injustices in union contracts. As Alan Balsam, former shop steward, said, "His contributions to workers will be felt for a long, long time...
...Indians (1949-54) and one of the first blacks to play in baseball's major leagues; of gunshot wounds inflicted by two robbers who shot him as he left a bank with the payroll for his co-workers at the TRW Inc. plant where he was a union steward; in Euclid, Ohio...
...Steward proceeded to hold the first fifteen batters he faced hitless (the only Tigers who reached base came on two walks and an error) until DeGeorge led off the tenth with a single...