At Vic's it was all haircuts and Habs (Telegraph-Journal)
Teigue Tanaka sits patiently propped up on a platform in a barber chair inside Vic's Barbershop....more...National honors for cubs Aaron & Junior (Weekly Times)
EMERGING Wests Tigers cubs Aaron Woods and Junior Rogica (pictured) have gained selection in the Australian Schoolboys Open squad to play the touring England Academy and French national junior teams in Queensland next month....more... Leaving a legacy (Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin)
What will the face of Plymouth high school sports look like without two of its most revered individuals? Without athletic trainer Ray Burton and volunteer softball assistant coach Jim Kelley, some said it will never look the same again. ...more... All for 1 (Lansing State Journal)
Runners stand on first and second. It's 6:33 p.m. on Monday, June 9, at a baseball field behind Chippewa Middle School in Okemos. Coach Mark Hollis gives the sign to his baserunners: double steal. As the next pitch crosses the plate, both break into a sprint....more... Bidding farewell to a baseball heirloom: Lou Gehrig's jacket (Philly.com)
ON THE MORNING of May 2, 1939, at Detroit's Book-Cadillac hotel, Lou Gehrig informed Yankees manager Joe McCarthy that he wanted to take himself out of the lineup. His streak of 2,130 consecutive games, which had earned him an enduring nickname, the Iron Horse, was about to end....more... Warner keeps giving back to St. Louis (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Kurt Warner hasn't played for the Rams since 2003, but he remains committed to the St. Louis community on a personal level. Warner is an ex-St. Louis athlete, but he still does more for the area than most of the pro athletes who currently work and live here....more... Babe Ruth's Forbes Field home run ball could fetch $200,000 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Jim Englert's great uncle always knew he had a special piece of memorabilia from that day at Forbes Field when Babe Ruth put what would be the exclamation point on his storied career, but back in ......more... Honoring memory of late DLS star, Wolf (Contra Costa Times)
Friends and family gathered early Tuesday morning for a tearful gravesite toast to Frank Wolf on the one-year anniversary of his shocking death at 35....more... Aaron letter is history in his hands (The Charlotte Observer)
Here is the letter, seven lines long, written on a two-hole sheet of notebook paper. It is an old letter, speckled with time, folded and unfolded and, finally, placed in a plastic sheath collectors call a top loader. Jeffrey Gitomer holds the sheath up to eye level. ?Mobile, Alabama,? he says. ?November 22, 1951.? He begins to read. ?Dear Mr. Pollack. I receive you letter, and it is entirely ......more... |