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• William Kennedy was pitching for Brooklyn in 1897 when the umpire called a close decision against him.

Kennedy lost his temper and hurled the baseball at the umpire, intending to smack him in the head. The ball narrowly missed the ump, who called the ball in play. A runner on base scored before the catcher could retrieve the ball. Brooklyn lost the game 2 - 1.

• Joe Engel, pitching in Washington, did not do a very good job. The question was not whether his pitches would go over the plate but whether they would stay in the ballpark. Manager Clark Griffith called him to his office one day and informed him he was being sent to Minneapolis. “Who am I being traded for?” Engel asked. “No one,” replied Griffith. “It’s an even trade!”

• In 1918, Otis Crandall was pitching for Los Angeles against Salt Lake City. He had a perfect no-hitter going.

There were two out in the ninth inning and not a single man had reached base. Then his brother Karl came to bat for Salt Lake. He made a base hit — the only known instance where a no-hitter was broken by the pitcher’s brother.

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• Bob Fothergill was a big man. He was a good hitter, but he was sensitive about his weight. As Leo Durocher got ready to pitch against him, he called out, “Stop the game!” and approached the umpire. When the ump asked what was wrong, Durocher replied, “Don’t you know the rules?” he asked, pointing at Fothergill. “BOTH those guys can’t bat at the same time!” Fothergill was so angry he couldn’t bat well and struck out.

• Ty Cobb, playing for the Detroit Tigers in 1912, was suspended from play when he jumped into the stands and beat up an abusive heckler. His sympathetic teammates went on strike. So the manager advertised for new players to fill in the next day at a game in Philadelphia. This impromptu team went up against the world champion Oakland A’s. The pitcher allowed 25 hits and 7 walks in 8 innings, but did manage to get one strike-out. An infielder was hit in the mouth by a ground ball and lost two teeth. An outfielder was hit on the head by a fly ball. This pick-up team got 4 hits and made 10 errors and the final score was 24 - 2. The next day, the regular team members ended their strike, paid their fines, and went back to work, except for Cobb, who was suspended for 10 days.

• Charlie Grimm was managing the losing Chicago Cubs.

One day he got an excited call from his scout saying that he found a pitcher who struck out 27 men in a row. Only one man had even managed to hit a foul. He asked if he should sign the pitcher. Grimm replied, “Sign up the guy who hit the foul. We’re looking for hitters!”

• In 1939, Bob Feller was the best known pitcher in the country, playing for Cleveland. On Mother’s Day, he brought his mother from her Iowa farm to Chicago so she could see him play. A Chicago White Sox batter slugged a foul ball into the stands — where it hit Feller’s mother, knocking her unconscious.

• Germany Schaefer was batting against Nick Altrock.

There was a man on first. Schaefer swung and missed a fast ball. Then the pitcher, pretending he was getting ready to throw to the batter, let loose with a fast ball to first base, where the runner was leading off.

Continued next page • When he got the ball back, Altrock let fly another scorcher of a fastball. Schaefer got a second strike.

He threw down his bat and walked back to the dugout.

“Hey,” called the ump, “You’ve only got two strikes!”

“No,” replied Schaefer, “It’s three strikes — I swung at that pitch he threw to first base!”

• In the early 1900s, Rube Waddell was such a great pitcher that all batters feared him. One day the pitcher on the opposing team got a great idea: if he could tire Waddell out before the game, his pitching would be off. So he challenged Waddell to a pitching contest.

Whichever one of them could throw the farthest would win $5. They both showed up before the game and

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• Texas University was up against the Yankees in an exhibition game when Lou Gehrig came up to bat. There were two runners on base and it was three and two for Gehrig. The catcher signaled the pitcher, the pitcher nodded — then threw a straight ball right to home plate.

Gehrig sent it clear out of the park. The catcher marched up the pitcher, ranting at him for not paying attention to the signals. “Why did you throw him such a nice pitch?” he yelled. The pitcher was not sorry. “I got to thinking: I’ll never pitch a Big League game and maybe I’ll never get to see a game at the Yankee Stadium, and I sure did want to see Gehrig bust just one!”

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Women in History:

JACKIE MITCHELL Jackie Mitchell was born in Tennessee in 1913. Her neighbor, Dazzy Vance, was a pitcher in the minor leagues.

Though Jackie was only five, Dazzy taught her basic pitching techniques, and she quickly caught on. Dazzy told her she could become a great ball player. Jackie grew up believing him.

• At 16, Jackie played for a women’s team in Chattanooga.

At 17, she attended a baseball school in Atlanta, where she was noticed by the owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts, a minor league team. He offered her a contract to play for the 1931 season. The newspapers ran stories about the first woman ever to play in the minor leagues.

(However, in 1898, Lizzie Arlington played a single game for Reading, PA, technically making Jackie the second woman in minor league history.)

• Meanwhile, the New York Yankees had finished spring training in Florida and were on their way to New York.

They stopped in Chattanooga to play the Lookouts in an exhibition game.

• The game began before a crowd of 4,000. Reporters, wire services, and a newsreel camera were on hand.

The Lookouts’ manager sent Clyde Barfoot out to pitch the first inning. The Yankees’ lead-off batter slugged a double, and their next hitter smacked a single, allowing a run. The manager pulled Barfoot out and sent rookie southpaw Jackie to the mound. The next hitter up at bat was the legendary Babe Ruth.

• Jackie’s first pitch was a ball, but the next three pitches were strikes, with Babe taking a useless swing at the first two, and the third dropping across the plate for a strike.

Jackie Mitchell struck Babe Ruth out. The crowd went wild! Babe Ruth kicked the dirt, called the umpire nasty names, gave his bat a wild heave, and stomped out to the Yank’s dugout.

• But there was still work to be done, for the next batter up was Lou Gehrig. She struck him out on three pitches.

Jackie Mitchell had fanned the “Sultan of Swat” and the “Iron Horse” back-to-back. The crowd rose to its feet in a lengthy standing ovation.

• Jackie pitched to one more batter, allowing a walk, before the manager pulled her out and sent Barfoot in. The Yankees won 14 – 4.

• The news spread across the country. Fan mail poured in.

One envelope had no address aside from the words “The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth.”

• A few days later, the baseball commissioner voided her contract, declaring that women were unfit to play

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• In Fenway Park, rules declare that if a batted ball hits one of the pigeons who roost in the stadium, the ball is declared dead.

• Brooklyn had the bases loaded. Hank DeBerry was on third, Dazzy Vance on second, and Chick Fewster was on first. Babe Herman came up to bat and hit a long one. DeBerry ran home and scored. Vance advanced to third and decided to stay there. Fewster ran to second and was on his way to third when he saw that Vance had stopped, so he turned around and went back to second.

But Babe Herman was running full speed ahead, past first, past second, and on to third. At third he made a great slide, only to find Vance already occupying the base. Fewster stood halfway between second and third, wondering what he should do.

The third baseman got the ball and began tagging everybody in sight.

When the umpire recovered his senses, he called Herman and Fewster out, and Vance safe.

It took half an hour for the audience to stop laughing, and it spawned a popular joke: “How’s the game going?” “Brooklyn has three men on base!” “Oh really? Which base?”

• In 1984, Dave Klingman went to bat for the Oakland Athletics against the Minnesota Twins. Klingman hit a fly ball that penetrated the protective netting of the Metrodome ceiling 180 feet up. It never fell. Umpires called it a ground rule double. When the ball was retrieved by the groundskeeper, it was sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

• Herman Schaefer, playing for Washington in 1910, was on first and a teammate was on third. Schaefer stole second, hoping the catcher would try to throw him out, giving the teammate on third a chance to go for home. But the catcher didn’t make the throw. So Schaefer stole first base back. The rule book revealed no rule against stealing bases backwards. When play resumed, Schaefer stole second again.

The catcher threw (too late) and the teammate on third scored.

Later the rules were amended and stealing backwards became an automatic out.

• Herman Schaefer once hit a homer out of the park. He slid into first, slid into second, slid into third, and slid home.

• In 1920, the Cleveland Indians were up against Brooklyn in the World Series. Bill Wambsganss was in center field for the Indians when he caught a fly for one out. The force of the running jump carried him to second base, where he tagged out the second base runner who had been heading for third. Then he got another easy out by tagging the first base runner heading for second. It was an unassisted triple play. The crowd was silent while they tried to figure out what had happened and how many outs there were. When realization set in, fans went wild.

• Mike Grady, third baseman for the New York Giants, holds the distinction of making the most errors in one play. In 1895, he missed a ground ball and the batter reached first. He overthrew the ball to first, and the batter got to second. When the runner headed for third, the first base man threw to Grady, but he dropped it and the runner raced home, whereupon Grady threw the ball over the catcher’s head. Four errors on a single play.

• In 1931, the Braves were losing to the Cardinals, 12-0.

Rabbit Maranville called time out and gathered the team for an infield conference. They gathered in a footballtype huddle. Rabbit called the signals, someone snapped the baseball back to him, and the players went crazy tackling each other. inmates, some of whom burn to death when they are not unlocked from their cells. The prison, built to hold 1,500 people, housed 4,300 prisoners at the time of the fire.

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• On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from Boston to warn leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching on Concord on a mission to confiscate the Massachusetts militia arsenal and capture Adams and Hancock.

• On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first black player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, N.Y., to compete for the Dodgers. Baseball had been segregated for more than 50 years.

• On April 17, 1964, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled by Henry Ford II at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. That same day, the new car also debuted in Ford showrooms across America, and almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up by buyers. Ford sold more than 400,000 Mustangs in its first year.

baseball because it was “too strenuous.” In 1952, Major League Baseball formally banned women from contracts, a ban that lasted until 1992.

• On April 19, 1876, a Wichita, Kan., commission votes not to rehire policeman Wyatt Earp after he beats up a candidate for county sheriff. Earp’s Remington pistol made an effective club: Whenever possible, he preferred to pistol-whip his opponents rather than shoot them.

• Crushed, Jackie began pitching in exhibition games. At 19, she signed with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their long hair and beards. She traveled with them until 1937, but eventually got tired of the sideshow aspects of her career, such as being asked to wear a fake beard, or playing an inning while riding a donkey.

• On April 16, 1897, Frederick Winterbotham, one of Britain’s top code breakers, is born. Winterbotham would play a decisive role in the World War II Ultra codebreaking project, enabling British intelligence to intercept top-secret messages (even from Hitler) transmitted to and between German armed forces.

• On April 20, 1971, the Pentagon releases figures confirming that “fragging” is on the rise in Vietnam, with hundreds of reported incidents. Fragging was a slang term used to describe U.S. military personnel tossing a fragmentation hand grenade (hence the term “fragging”) to kill or wound or a fellow soldier, usually a superior officer or NCO.

• On April 21, 1930, a fire at an Ohio prison kills 320

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• She retired at 23, but played with local teams. She refused to come out of retirement when the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed in 1943.

• In 1982, she was invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Chattanooga Lookouts on their season opening day. She died in 1987, and was buried in Chattanooga.

• Her mentor, Dazzy Vance, went on to pitch major league for Brooklyn, and was the only pitcher to lead the National League in strikeouts for seven consecutive seasons. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and died in 1961.

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FLIPANY, TOUCH partnership encourage better nutrition in early learning centers Through the Transforming Our Community’s Health (TOUCH) initiative, partner organization FLIPANY— Florida Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to Youth—is empowering both teachers and parents at early learning centers in Broward County with the goal of helping children to develop healthy eating habits. With the view that both the home and center environment determine food choices of preschoolers, FLIPANY provides technical assistance by: • Helping centers to review foods served to children.

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• Encouraging teachers to be healthy eating role models and to inform parents about nutrition-related activities at the center and how to reinforce healthy choices at home.

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One result of the technical assistance can be seen at Tiny Town Preschool in North Lauderdale. The students tried new vegetables from their garden and teachers taught the students about the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables.

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The arguments against male circumcision are that it is unnecessary, doesn’t markedly affect the health of men or women in developed countries and can lead to serious complications, rare but possible. The actual complication rate is 0.2 percent to 0.6 percent, and most of the complications are minor. Furthermore, some feel strongly that it is a mutilating procedure. It is not on a par with female circumcision.

I believe the parents of infant boys are the ones to make the decision.

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ANSWER: The debate on male circumcision is one that generates heat on both sides. It is not the same as female circumcision. That is truly a mutilating procedure.

When people eat a fatty meal, the gallbladder contracts to shoot a stream of bile into the small intestine to aid in the digestion of fat. Without a gallbladder, bile drips into the small intestine directly from the liver. Fat digestion goes on almost as it did with a gallbladder.

Male circumcision for cultural and religious purposes is one thing, and I’m not talking about the procedure in those circumstances.

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The benefits of male circumcision include a reduction in urinary-tract infection in infancy. It is said to reduce the transmission and acquisition of sexually transmitted diseases. It has been shown convincingly to decrease the transmission of the HIV virus, the virus that causes AIDS;

ANSWER: The likely cause is inflammation of the Achilles tendon, the tendon of the calf muscle. It attaches to the heel.

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Other environmental issues in the apartment can contribute to your mother’s allergies. In winter, dust can build up, and mold spores and pollen can enter even the cleanest apartments through heating air ducts.

so much thought into your decision to bring Sky to an offleash park. It’s important to be considerate of how your dog will behave in social situations. The question now is, how exactly will she behave?

Reduce the amount of allergens by dusting and vacuuming frequently. Wash and dry area rugs before your mom’s visit.

During days with high pollen counts, keep the windows shut and run the air conditioner or heater instead. Be sure to change or clean the unit’s filter, if you have access to it, to reduce the amount of allergens coming through the system.

My guess is that Sky has not spent a lot of time with other dogs. She’s old enough now to start socializing, but first make sure she has had all needed vaccinations.

If she still insists that the dog is the culprit, consider boarding Frankie for the day or two that your mother is visiting, or having a friend keep him during that time. You shouldn’t have to give up your pet just so your mother can drop in occasionally, but you probably can come to a compromise that will enable her to visit.

Start small -- schedule a play date with a friend or neighbor’s dog, and gradually build the number of dogs she’s around. Supervise her the entire time to make sure she gets along well with other dogs.

If it isn’t possible to do a limited play date, look into weekly group training sessions with a professional trainer. These will reinforce basic obedience skills with Sky with the added benefit of socializing, in a controlled environment, with other dogs.

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If neither option is available, slowly introduce Sky to the dog park. Pick a time when few dogs are in the park.

(You’ll need to scout the park on your own beforehand.)

Keep her on the leash for the first few visits, especially when she’s meeting new dogs.

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Be a good park patron, too. Talk with the other dog owners while you’re there -- they can offer helpful advice. Pick up after Sky. Make sure Sky will respond to you and your commands both on and off leash.

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7. If you’re getting a salary raise this year, commit to depositing half of it into your savings, paying down debt or building a college fund for your children. Since you didn’t have that money last year, it’s added income this year, and you should be able to commit some of it to your longer-term financial goals.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail. com. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Off the Radar I was watching the NCAA tournament, and I wanted a sandwich.

I had no cold cuts, nor did I have any bread in the house.

Well ... actually, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not entirely true. We had the bread my wife makes our kid eat thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made out of bird seed and sticks and some sort of tofurkey nonsense in the fridge, but I would rather eat glass than that stuff. So I picked up the phone to order a sandwich from the local sandwich shop that advertises very fast delivery.

But since we got rid of the land line and went â&#x20AC;&#x153;cellphone only,â&#x20AC;? that can sometimes be problematic. You see, my cellphone has a battery with the lifespan of a mayfly and never works. So, after charging it in a wall outlet for a few minutes, it woke up, and 15 minutes later, after it helpfully â&#x20AC;&#x153;synchedâ&#x20AC;? and downloaded the 70 inane text messages sent from friends at sports bars (who were no doubt enjoying sandwiches), I was finally able to make the call and order

He was still befuddled. I still wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t showing up on his GPS, even after ordering pickles and chips. After suggesting he take out his crayon and write the directions down, he went to work spitting in my sandwich, and I went back to the games.

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The Western Pottery Manufacturing Company was located in Denver and produced stoneware crocks in various sizes.

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Q: I have an August 1943 edition of the magazine Better Homes and Gardens. How much do you think I can sell it for? -- Betty, Pueblo, Colo.

A: Most copies of the Better Homes and Gardens from this period sell in the $10 to $35 range. Content and condition are both important.

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Q: I am enclosing pictures of three Wedgwood plates that originally belonged to my grandmother. I am not sure of how old they are or how much they might be worth. Can you help me? -- Ron, Bradenton, Fla.

Q: While cleaning out my family barn in Kansas, I found an old crock that I am certain was used in my family for pickling. It has a large “10” on the side and is identified as being made by the Western Pottery company. Can you provide me with any other information I might find interesting? -- Steve, Kansas City, Kan.

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“Did you know you are actually doing some strength-training exercises while you work in the garden? Next time you are carrying a watering bucket or large flowerpot, just think about how that can help your muscles,” said Roberts. Maintaining muscle mass is an important part of assuring good flexibility and balance. And when you are bonetired from getting up and down, know that the slow movement of getting from a sitting to a standing position is good for maintaining your muscles and bones.

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Wave #439 1-1.5 $240K Listings for rent: Hemisphere Bn-14r 2-2 $2,900 mth Hemisphere os-12Q 3-2.5 $2,500 mth Hemisphere Bs-18e 3-2.5 $2,900 mth Hemisphere Bn-8H studio 2,000 seasonal Wave #838 1-1 $2,500 seasonal Quadomain Catania #2003 2-2 $3,800 mth

Wave 1527 studio $1,500 Wave 1139 1-1.5 $1,900 Hemisphere Bs-22B aval.5/1/13$2,200 Hemisphere Bs-20H 2-2 $2,800 Hemisphere on-20f 2-2 $1,680mth Palmetto towers #2 2-2 $3,000mth Wave #1139 1/1.5 Hemisphere Bn-14Q 1-1 $1,350mth