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...team, extended the lead by 0.73 seconds before junior Andrew Krna and sophomore Mark Knepley secured the win with times of 45.77 and 45.03 seconds, respectively, giving the team an overall finish of 3:02.26—2.38 seconds faster than UNC’s ‘A??€™ relay...
...Eckersley holds a particularly special place in my heart. Shortly after my father passed away in January of 1989, my father’s close friend Bill Jenkins met Eckersley at a Boston area restaurant when the A??€™s were in town to play the Red Sox. Eckersley still maintained a house in Sudbury, Mass. from his days playing in Boston that just happened to be less than five minutes away from where both Bill and I lived at the time...
...look at it, Eckersley was not a typical pitcher. Throughout his career with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Oakland A??€™s and St. Louis Cardinals, the kid from California known as the Eck utilized his trademark sidearm delivery to deceive hitters. Eckersley’s long black hair always hung out the back of his cap, and he would routinely pump his fist in jubilation after completing one of his 2,401 career strikeouts...
Still, Eckersley did not believe he had done enough for me. He managed to get every single member of the 1989 Oakland A??€™s to sign a baseball for me, and he asked his friend Rich Gedman to solicit the same signatures from his teammates on the Red Sox. The next time the A??€™s were in town, Dennis got tickets for Bill and me right behind the bullpen and talked to me both before and after the game. Over the next couple of years, every time Dennis was in town he would...
...times may be a??€™changing, but FM’s insatiable desire for word games remains strong. Her freshman year, outgoing FM chair Rachel E. Dry interviewed local crossword-writing maven, Brendan Emmett Quigley. Three years later, Quigley returns to our pages with a very special FM-related puzzle. Enjoy...