Baseball Scores and Quotes Highlight Weekend Matchups
MLB results show Toronto 6 Baltimore 3 and Cubs 7 Phillies 6 with Mets atop Montreal 2. Florida 2 Braves 1, Colorado at Arizona, Dodgers at San Diego, and St. Louis at San Francisco games noted. Larry Pickering, translator for Latino players, reflects on career and family pressures.
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Lightning Forces Suspension Of Bluefield Elizabethton Game
In Elizabethton Tennessee Monday night Appalachian League action between the Bluefield Orioles and Elizabethton Twins was halted in the top of the second inning due to lightning. Bluefield used leadoff hits from Tom Joyce and Erik Smallwood before Trent Oeltsen and Doug Deeds supplied a two run first inning. The game will resume at 6 p.m. tonight followed by a second game as weather permitting. The Princeton Devil Rays begin a three game set with the Johnson City Cardinals at 7 p.m. at Hunnicutt Field with the first 1 000 fans receiving a Chick Fil A sandwich coupon.
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Buchanan County school board to delay coaching cuts amid budget crisis
Buchanan County School Board will not fill 25 to 30 coaching positions this year to ease a $1.5 million reduction in funding, while approving fall sports coaching cuts. Chair Joe Gary Street said some coaches will be reassigned, with no raises and no program eliminations. enrollment decline drives revenue troubles. Spokesman Tom Scott urged funding from the Board of Supervisors, noting rural decline reduces state aid.
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Spanish Speaking Players Face Language Barriers in Minor League Baseball
In 2002 Caribbean Mexican and South American players populate minor league rosters across the United States while confronting language and xenophobia. Anne Lambert works with Spanish speaking players for the Princeton Devil Rays to help them adapt and feel welcome away from home.
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Fenway says goodbye to Ted Williams tribute at Fenway Park
Thousands visit Fenway Park for a daylong Ted Williams tribute honoring the Hall of Famer who died July 5. Fans walk the warning track, view Williams memorabilia, and await an evening service. Proceeds from the event go to the Jimmy Fund, with Lifelong memorabilia and images displayed along the Green Monster.
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WBDY radio to resume programming
BLUEFIELD WBDY AM 1190 will return to air within a week after corporate approval to purchase parts. transmitter damage from Four Seasons Country floods last year cost 16000 dollars. new laser board and gear ordered, shipping about four days. Halford says AM gear is aging classic tech but package sales support the cluster and audience responds quickly to outages.
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