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How John Lawson helped build the city
The Lawson name is an important one in Glendale’s history. John William Lawson arrived here from Michigan in 1907 and became a prominent builder. Those who knew him saw Lawson as a man willing to take chances and as a man with a gift for making...Tags: Michigan, Politics, Metal and Mineral, Building Material, Elections
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Marjorie G. Gilbert, jewelry store owner
Marjorie G. Gilbert, a retired certified public accountant who co-owned a Baltimore County jewelry business, died of pneumonia complications Feb. 13 at Sinai Hospital. She was 88 and lived in Owings Mills.
Born Marjorie Gross in Newark, N.J., she was a...Tags: Yogi Berra, Imogen Cunningham, Baltimore County, World War II (1939-1945), Photography Supplies and Services
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Why the GOP primary isn't like Obama vs. Clinton in '08
Republican wishful thinkers like to rationalize away the damage being inflicted on their party by the intramural mudslinging among its unimpressive field of presidential candidates. After all, they note, in 2008 Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary...Tags: Democratic Party, Political Candidates, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Mitch McConnell
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Charles S. 'DC' Reed, hospital food director
Baltimore Sun reporterCharles S. "DC" Reed, former food service director at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died July 24 of lung cancer at his Towson home. He was 79. Born and raised in Towson, Mr. Reed attended Loyola High School and graduated in...Tags: Yogi Berra, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health, Nolan Ryan, Hospitals and Clinics
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Ralph Houk dies at 90; Yankees manager won World Series in first 2 seasons
Ralph Houk, who won the World Series in 1961 and 1962 in his first two seasons as manager of the New York Yankees, died Wednesday in Winter Haven, Fla. He was 90.
Houk went on to lead the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox in a 20-year managerial career....Tags: Heart and Circulatory System, Yogi Berra, World War II (1939-1945), World Series, Cincinnati Reds
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From the archives: Skowron revels in storytelling as he battles lung cancer
Special to the TribuneThis story was first published in the Tribune on May 22, 2011. The voice is softer now but as affable and entertaining as ever. Moose Skowron still has many, many tales to tell. Like the night Marilyn Monroe was flirting -- only not with Skowron, nor...Tags: Yogi Berra, Health Treatments, Football, Atlanta Braves, Health
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Scoreboard
TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...Tags: Rod Carew, Football, Hiroki Kuroda, Erik Bedard, Don Sutton
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Is there an age limit for baseball managers?
New senior circuit
Phil Rogers
Chicago Tribune
Jack McKeon didn't get a four-year contract when the Marlins hired him to be their interim manager, so why not do what they're doing?
McKeon is clearly a bridge guy to Ozzie Guillen, Bobby Valentine or...Tags: Howard Schnellenberger, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Marlins, World Series, Cincinnati Reds
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Book review: 'Branch Rickey' by Jimmy Breslin
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBranch Rickey Jimmy Breslin Viking/Penguin Lives: 148 pp., $19.95 "I had a problem for a writer," Jimmy Breslin tells us in the prologue to "Branch Rickey," his impressionistic portrait of baseball's great emancipator, the man responsible for...Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Biography (genre), Book, Barack Obama, Human Interest
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The Reading Life: The nine best baseball books
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFive years ago, on the eve of the 2006 baseball season, I put together a list of nine favorite baseball books — one for each inning, one for every player on the field. Such a list was not meant to be definitive (how could it be?), but since then I'...Tags: Human Interest, Goose Goslin, Chicago Cubs, Jackie Robinson, Athletes
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Question of the Day: Is there an age limit for hiring a baseball manager?
The Fabulous ForumWriters from around Tribune Co. discuss Jack McKeon's hiring by the Florida Marlins. Check back throughout the day for more responses and weigh in with a comment of your own. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times No one would think of...... -
Jim Murray, June 4, 1961
The Daily MirrorJune 4, 1961: Jim Murray puts in a call to Casey Stengel and says: "I realized I was listening to the Voice of Baseball again. And what it is doing in a bank vault in Glendale instead of a locker......
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