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A collection of news and information related to David Wells published by Tribune Company sources.
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'I want to thank the Lord for making me a Yankee'
mark.herrmann@newsday.comBefore a Yankees postseason game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field in 1998, George Steinbrenner was boarding a clean, efficient elevator in that sparkling ballpark and said, "Gee, what a stadium this is. We need one just like it." His point was that his club...Tags: Whitey Ford, All Stars, History, Casey Stengel, Tom Seaver
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The house that Ruth built
Anyone who has followed baseball for the past 90 years could have called this shot: The biggest name in the biggest issue in the run-up to the final All-Star Game at the current Yankee Stadium is a player who last took a major-league swing in 1935. Yes,...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, All Stars, Ty Cobb, Family, Babe Ruth
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Going out in style
Associated PressWhen Yankee Stadium opened for business April 18, 1923, an army of writers strained for adjectives to describe the majestic, triple-decked structure that loomed over the landscape like the Colosseum in Rome, somehow relocated to the Bronx. Babe Ruth, who...Tags: Football, All Stars, History, Casey Stengel, Joe Louis
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Upstart Rays take juice away from Red Sox-Yankees
ken.davidoff@newsday.comLet it be known that Newsday offered Rays executive vice president Andrew Friedman a chance to apologize yesterday. It's his fault, after all, that this holiday weekend's big series in the Bronx, starting tonight, has been relegated to a battle for the...Tags: Aaron Sele, Tim Wakefield, New York Rangers, David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox
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Upstart Rays take juice away from Red Sox-Yankees
Let it be known that Newsday offered Rays executive vice president Andrew Friedman a chance to apologize Wednesday. It's his fault, after all, that this holiday weekend's big series in the Bronx, starting Thursday night, has been relegated to a battle for...Tags: Tampa Bay Rays, Aaron Sele, New York Rangers, American League, Baltimore Orioles
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Red Sox, Wakefield Stop Diamondbacks, 5-0
Courant Staff WriterOne career was built with blatant power, the other with an unpredictable trick pitch. Combined, they've pitched 6,660 1/3 innings in 1,106 games. And as different as a 99-mph fastball is from 65-mph knuckleball, Randy Johnson and Tim Wakefield have...Tags: Jamie Moyer, Tim Wakefield, Tom Candiotti, Jonathan Papelbon, Philadelphia Phillies
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Yankees' tradition of excellence defined stadium
mark.herrmann@newsday.comBefore a Yankees postseason game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field in 1998, George Steinbrenner was boarding a clean, efficient elevator in that sparkling ballpark and said, "Gee, what a stadium this is. We need one just like it." His point was that his club...Tags: Whitey Ford, All Stars, History, David Cone, Tom Seaver
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Larger-than-life Ruth built this house
mark.herrmann@newsday.comAnyone who has followed baseball for the past 90 years could have called this shot: The biggest name in the biggest issue in the run-up to the final All-Star Game at the current Yankee Stadium is a player who last took a major-league swing in 1935. Yes,...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, All Stars, Ty Cobb, Family, Babe Ruth
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'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired'
Times Television CriticRoman Polanski. You can start a heated conversation just uttering his name. He has led a life so large that it's often chopped down to a few phrases: Oscar-winning director of such film classics as "Chinatown," "Tess" and "The Pianist." Survivor of the...Tags: Television, O.J. Simpson, Robert Redford, Judges, Jack Nicholson
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Garcia top hired gun for '08 stretch run
ken.davidoff@newsday.comThe best remaining pitcher on the free-agent market is not David Wells, it's Freddy Garcia. The righthander, who had surgery to repair his throwing shoulder on Aug. 30, will step on the mound Thursday and begin the final laps to a return that should occur...Tags: Sammy Sosa, Jose Reyes, Mike Piazza, Carlos Guillen, Baseball
Jul 6, 2008
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Jul 6, 2008
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Jul 6, 2008
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Jul 3, 2008
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Jul 2, 2008
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Jun 26, 2008
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Jun 24, 2008
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Jun 24, 2008
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Jun 9, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 11, 2008
|Column| Newsday
