Jultin Joe DiMaggio Throws First Pitch in Fair Finale
The legendary Yankee Clipper threw out the first pitch of an old-timers game to highlight the final day of the inaugural World Children's Baseball Fair as reported by the Herald-Journal.
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1990
Page
1
The legendary Yankee Clipper threw out the first pitch of an old-timers game to highlight the final day of the inaugural World Children's Baseball Fair as reported by the Herald-Journal.
In 1985 a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 crashed into a mountain on a domestic flight, killing 520 people. In 1978 Pope Paul VI, who died August 6 at age 80, was buried in St. Peter's Basilica after an outdoor funeral mass attended by thousands.
The piece notes it would be rare for a bachelor to be named Supreme Court justice, suggesting David Souter would be only the sixth of 110 justices to sit unmarried. It also covers Liberians fleeing warfare as refugees among 15 million displaced people seeking safety and better living conditions.
Ambiguous OCR fragment mentions Teeta Ona and multiple codes such as AG Ty and TVBK33 2. It reads like a garbled nominal item with scattered entity tokens, lacking clear event or outcome to summarize into a fuller news item.
The notice lists customer service phone hours for delivery inquiries. Local number 470-0050 is provided with staffed times Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for local calls and long distance assistance.
Herald-Journal corrects a Community Page caption misidentifying a Boy Scout placing a leaflet in a mailbox. The scout was placing it in a newspaper delivery tube. It is legal to put items other than mail in a mailbox. A separate notice fixes the chairman’s first name for the Consortium for Children's Services benefit. his name is Frank Doroff.
The National Weather Service projects a 40 percent rain chance today with highs in the low 80s and overnight in the mid 60s. Through Monday partly sunny skies emerge as the rain subsides and highs near 80. Lows around 60 with a return of sun Tuesday and Wednesday, rain possible again Thursday. Central New York should see mostly clear skies as two rainmakers push off. Atlantic Coast towns Chicopee Falls and Wigwam report four inches. Bristol, New Hampshire, logs 3 inches in 24 hours and nearly 1.17 feet in the past week.
Oneida and Onondaga lakes show variable winds under ten knots with a chance of afternoon showers or thunderstorms. Lake Ontario winds stay under ten knots with two-foot waves or less and a chance of afternoon or evening storms. St Lawrence River area sees mostly southwest winds five to ten knots with fair weather today and a small chance of a shower tonight.
A soggy stationary front drenched the Northeast from New Jersey to Maine with persistent rain and thunderstorms. Areas like Chicopee Falls Massachusetts recorded over four inches of rain while Florida saw development of showers along the same front. Weather summaries from the New York Times News Service.
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