Sports
Most career at-bats without a triple: Player: at-bats Mark Parent: 1,303 Craig Worthington: 1,234 Gaylord Perry: 1,076 Earl Averill: 1,031 Whitey Ford: 1,023 Doc Edwards: 906 Lefty Gomez: 904 Bob Buhl: 857 Jim Traber: 819 Curt Davis: 813 Mike Sweeney: 812 Larry Dierker: 789 Sandy Koufax: 776 Rick Rhoden: 761 Active streaks without a triple: Player: at-bats Mark McGwire: 4,399 Jim Leyritz: 2,092 Chili Davis: 1,939 Mike Stanley: 1,263 Eddie Taubensee: 1,239
May 30, 1999
Forty Million Dollar Slaves The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete William C. Rhoden Crown Books: 288 pp., $23.95
July 9, 2006
Angels
One thing the Angels needed Friday night when they opened a four-game series against the New York Yankees at Anaheim Stadium was a strong performance from starting pitcher Mike Witt.
May 23, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
Rock Hudson’s lover was awarded $14.5 million in damages Wednesday after a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found that the late actor and his private secretary had engaged in “outrageous conduct” by concealing that Hudson was suffering from AIDS.
Feb. 16, 1989
Dodgers
R.J.
July 23, 1986
OK, what do you call it when the East team turns the NBA Finals into an actual series?
June 8, 2004
Jack Nicklaus climbed past a faltering Dale Douglass and charged to the third-round lead Saturday at the U.S.
July 11, 1993
Television
Thursday TV Talk: Robert Pattinson; Kristen Stewart; Taylor Swift
Dec. 27, 2012
Kelly Robbins recorded the lowest 72-hole score in LPGA history as she won the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic by eight strokes Sunday at Sylvania, Ohio.
July 7, 1997
Scott Hoch walked off the green a happy guy, his arms around his wife and two children, a bright smile lighting up the darkening skies at the Western Open in Lemont, Ill.
July 9, 2001