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...during the Eisenhower Administration, Major League Baseball's commissioner would be treated to a nostalgic version of the national pastime. He would see 200 kids lining up early outside a ball park for a $5 bleacher seat despite the hot, sticky Coney Island weather. If he traveled to Memphis, Tenn., he would see families hurrying past downtown landmarks like the Peabody Hotel to get a good seat at AutoZone Park. Outside Chicago, he would see Kane County Cougars players being swarmed by young fans. And in cities and towns from Shreveport, La., to Medicine Hat, Alta., he would...
...throwback to the days of Bill Veeck, the legendary, maverick big-league owner who once sent a midget to bat. The St. Paul Saints, owned by Veeck's son Mike, gave out inflatable bats, sponsored by the maker of Viagra, to every man over 21. In Nashville, Tenn., 15 nuns opened a game with the national anthem and came back during the 7th-inning stretch to perform the Macarena...
...Phillips, 58, a public-relations executive from Memphis, Tenn., having a lifelong network of friends has been the best way to meet women since his second divorce four years ago. "You just have to look at the network right around you and let people know you are ready to start meeting people; I've found that works best," says Phillips, who has dated about 20 women since his divorce and is now seeing someone regularly...
...Clark read the shocking report in a Kentucky newspaper that Lewis had killed himself on the Natchez Trace, near Nashville, Tenn. "I fear O! I fear the waight of his mind has over come him," he wrote to his brother Jonathan. (The cause of Lewis' death is still hotly debated, though most historians believe it was suicide.) A month after Lewis' death, in a remarkable letter published in May in James Holmberg's Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark, William wrote that, in his final delirium, Lewis would apparently conceive "that he herd me Comeing...
...plaques clogging his arteries had been there--or had been that large--for long. "Small plaques that burst can be just as deadly as large ones," says Dr. Rose Marie Robertson, past president of the American Heart Association and a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. "You could have a 30% narrowing yesterday that becomes 90% to 100% with a plaque rupture today...