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...Perhaps no one complains about the length of spring training more than the players themselves. Ken Griffey Jr., for one, has called it "way too long." One exception is Ty Wigginton, a third baseman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. "I believe the more pitches you see, the more at-bats you get, the better off you're going to be," he says, while adding, "I don't know too many players who agree with...
Morgan Brown did it by inducing a weak grounder from Bobby Wigginton to shortstop, which sophomore Ian Wallace threw to first for the second out. Brown also got the first two outs in the 11th...
This year's Crimson representatives did not just participate; they excelled. In the collegiate men's division, Harvard sophomore Bill Cooper reeled in Northeastern oarsman Craig Wigginton over the last 500m of the race, and won the prized hammer. Awarded in recognition of the strength required to beat an ergometer into submission, and not in the pejorative sense in which the term would be applied on the water, this hardened-steel trophy epitomizes the deadly frivolity of the event. Four other Crimson rowers competed in the final...
...Eliot Wigginton, 36, began in 1966 with 140 children and $440 in donations from the residents of Rabun Gap in the north Georgia mountains. Wigginton, who grew up in Georgia and was educated at Cornell, wanted to teach young people about the glories of the area's independent mountain folk. He named the project Foxfire, after a Georgia lichen that glows in the dark, and set up a course of study, which includes photography, folklore and music. The students interview elderly people about their lives and write stories for the Foxfire magazines and books. Published by Doubleday since...
...million copies. Now the Foxfire program has 300 students each year, with 19 employees and 25 log cabins for a base. Wigginton's ultimate goal: to develop jobs and leaders to revive communities in Appalachia...