Sports
Baseball: Giant reliever Rod Beck might look tough, but the sick and disadvantaged people he supports know what he’s really like.
Sept. 30, 1997
Rod Beck, a relief pitcher who played 13 years in the major leagues and recorded 286 career saves, including a career-best 51 for the Chicago Cubs in 1998, has died.
June 25, 2007
Rod Beck hears. He just doesn’t listen.
Aug. 19, 1992
Rod Beck hears, he just doesn’t listen.
Aug. 20, 1992
There were four of us in the living room: Rod Beck, his pal Michael DeGrandis, myself and ESPN.
Sept. 13, 1994
The Chicago Cubs put closer Rod Beck on the 15-day disabled list with a bone spur in the elbow of his pitching arm.
May 19, 1999
The Former Grant High Pitcher Struggled When His Velocity Dropped, but a Change in Style Has Allowed the San Franciso Reliever to Again Become One of Baseball’s Best Closers
Aug. 1, 1997
San Francisco Giant closer Rod Beck was put on the 15-day disabled list because of a broken bone in his left foot.
April 7, 1994
The Chicago Cubs traded closer Rod Beck to the Boston Red Sox and catcher Tyler Houston to the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday as clubs in the pennant and wild-card races tried to beef up their rosters.
Sept. 1, 1999
California
A California man and his teen-age son were rescued today after spending a cool, rainy night trapped on a popular climbing cliff in Little Cottonwood Canyon east of here, authorities said.
May 1, 1987