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Art Callaham: It's easy to get me going on baseball ...
I promised another column on baseball, our “national pastime,” and the Baseball Hall of Fame; so, while it’s still spring here goes: Two weeks ago on Ruth Anne’s and my radio show, Ed Lough talked baseball. Ed is known locally for...Tags: Voting, New York Yankees, Jackie Robinson, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball
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Louis M. Sleater, Orioles pitcher
Louis Mortimer Sleater, a standout high school athlete who ended his seven-year major league pitching career with the Baltimore Orioles and was later a steel salesman, died of lung disease Monday at his Timonium home. He was 86.
A left-handed...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Mining, New York Yankees, Warren Spahn, Oakland Athletics
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Orioles to hold public ceremony for Earl Weaver on April 20 at 2 p.m.
The Orioles plan to hold a “public celebration of life” for former manager Earl Weaver at Camden Yards on April 20 at 2 p.m., the team announced Tuesday. The Hall of Famer died in January at the age of 82. The event, called “A...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Buck Showalter, Earl Weaver, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore Orioles
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The Sun remembers: March 3-March 9
March 4, 2006: The Maryland women's basketball team ends a 14-game losing streak to Duke by defeating the Blue Devils, 78-70, in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. The teams will meet again in the NCAA final with Maryland (34-4)...
Tags: National Invitation Tournament, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Basketball, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles
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Helen Hannah Campbell dies at 97; women's league baseball chaperon
As the chaperon of Michigan's Muskegon Lassies in the 1940s, Helen Hannah Campbell made sure the professional baseball players wore lipstick and properly modest uniform skirts in the "girls league" founded to keep ballparks filled while men were away at...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees, Richard Nixon, Spring Training
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Honus Wagner baseball trading card sold for $2.1 million
A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball trading card was sold Saturday for a record $2.1 million in a public online sale, according to Goldin Auctions, which did not identify who purchased the rarest of collectibles. The New Jersey-based company closed bidding...Tags: Josh Hamilton, Piracy, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baseball, National League
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New books on baseball
Are you a baseball fan or a football fan? Every year the sports media spend a lot of time and energy arguing about whether most Americans are one or the other. I think it's a silly argument for two reasons. First, it should obvious that most sports fans...
Tags: National Football League, Super Bowl, New York Yankees, Major League Baseball, Football
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Column: South Dakota raises bumper crop of journalists
Despite its smallness, South Dakota has produced numerous nationally known journalists. One of its finest, Chuck Raasch, brought South Dakota basketball to the forefront with his recent column in USA Today. Raasch is a South Dakota State graduate...
Tags: Nate Wolters, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Basketball, ESPN (tv network), University of California, Los Angeles
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Howard T. Sachs, Crown Cork and Seal manager
Howard Thomas "Has" Sachs, a retired Crown Cork and Seal manager and a coach, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Feb. 24 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 77 and lived in Pasadena.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Sidney Avenue in Westport, he...Tags: Al Kaline, Alzheimer's Disease, College Baseball, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Baltimore Orioles
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Stoystown couple celebrates 60 years
Jack and Janice Dickey of Stoystown celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Jack and the former Janice Walker were married March 22, 1953, in the Berlin Lutheran Church by the Rev. John Heller and the Rev. H. Dale Zimmerman. Born Janice Fay Walker...
Tags: College Baseball, Cy Young Award, West Virginia University, Awards and Prizes, Korean War (1950-1953)
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Five nostalgic books on baseball
My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Chicago Cubs, Roberto Clemente Jr., Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees
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Dan Marino continues 20-year walk with autism
People always lament how sports stars aren't heroes like they used to be. Lance Armstrong lies. Tiger Woods stains his name. The entire Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is at issue. But what if everyone's telling the wrong stories? Because this is what...
Tags: National Football League, Jeff Ireland, Tiger Woods, Behavioral Conditions, Football
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