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As Major League Baseball spring training gets into full swing, Tidbits invites you to come along as we remember some unforgettable moments in America’s favorite pastime -- brought to you through the antics of some of our more memorable pitchers.• In the 1940s, Bobo Newsom was batting for the

Yankees against White Sox pitcher Joe Haynes. He swung and nicked the ball, which rolled back to the pitcher. Realizing it was useless to even try to run to first base, Bobo headed back to the dugout. But instead of throwing to first, Haynes just stood and watched Bobo walk away. When the crowd began to laugh, Bobo turned and saw the pitcher still had the ball. So he began to stroll towards first base. So did Haynes. He walked a little faster. Haynes did too. Suddenly he broke into a sprint. Haynes began to run, finally lobbing the ball to first base only seconds ahead of Bobo.

• In 1934, Dodger manager Casey Stengel had pitcher Walter Beck replaced in the game. Unhappy with the decision, Beck lost his cool and threw the ball against the rightfield wall, bouncing it back into the playing field. The Dodger rightfielder had been “resting his eyes” meanwhile, recovering from

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When Virne Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell was born in 1913, she weighed a tiny three-and-a-half pounds. But as soon as she could walk, she went with her father to the baseball diamond. Her dad, an ardant baseball fan, soon taught Jackie everything he knew about the game. It not only set the course for the young girl’s life, but changed forever some of the annals in baseball’s hall of records.• In her early years, Jackie’s family was living in

Memphis, Tennessee. Their next door neighbor was a minor league ballplayer by the name of Dazzy Vance. Dazzy (who would later play for the Brooklyn Dodgers) quickly recognized Jackie’s agility, speed and talent for sports.

• Though she was only six, he decided to teach her a few things about pitching a baseball. He showed her how to throw his favorite pitch, one that he called the “drop ball.” This pitch was thrown level to the catcher, but it dropped -- just before it reached the plate. It was a hard pitch for any batter to hit.

• Dazzy taught her other basic pitching tech-niques, and she quickly caught on. He was impressed with her fast progress and told her she could become a great ball player if she put her mind to it. Bolstered by his confidence, she grew up believing it.

• At 16, Jackie played for a women’s team in Chattanooga. At 17, she attended a baseball school in Atlanta, where she was noticed by the owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts, a

Class AA minor league team. He offered her a contract to play for the 1931 season, and Jackie jumped at the chance.

• The newspapers ran stories about the first woman ever to play in the minor leagues. (However, in 1898, Lizzie Arlington had played in a single game for Reading, PA, technically making Jackie the second woman in minor league history.)

• Meanwhile, the New York Yankees had finished spring training in Florida and were on their way by train to New York. They stopped in Chattanooga to play the Lookouts in an exhibition game, as had been their routine in previous years.

• The game began before a crowd of 4,000. Reporters, wire services, and a newsreel camera were on hand. The Lookouts’ manager sent Clyde Barfoot out to pitch the first inning. The Yankees’ lead-off batter slugged a double, and their next hitter smacked a single, allowing a run. The manager pulled Barfoot out and sent rookie southpaw Jackie to the mound. The next hitter up at bat was the legendary Babe Ruth.





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a nasty hangover from the night before. He raced to the ball, scooped it up and fired it to the second baseman. It wasn’t until the crowd broke into laughter that he realized no one had actually batted it.

• Luke Appling went to bat for the White Sox in a game against the Tigers in the 1930s. In one at-bat he hit 14 consecutive foul balls. On the 15th pitch, the disgusted pitcher threw his glove instead of the ball.

• In 1961, Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score was hit in the eye by a line drive hit by New York Yankee Gil McDougald. The ball bounced off Score’s head and rolled to first base, where the Cleveland first baseman nabbed it and put the batter out. Score was credited with an assist.

• William Kennedy was pitching for Brooklyn in 1897 when the umpire called a close decision against him. Kennedy lost his temper and hurled the baseball at the umpire, intending to smack him in the head. The ball narrowly missed the ump, who called the ball in play. A runner on base scored before the catcher could retrieve the ball. Brooklyn lost the game 2 - 1.

• Joe Engel, pitching in Washington, was not doing a very good job. The question was not whether his pitches would go over the plate but whether they would stay in the ballpark. Manager Clark Griffith called him to his office one day and informed him he was being sent to Minneapolis. “Who am I being traded for?” Engel asked. “No one,” replied Griffith. “It’s an even trade!”

• In 1918, Otis Crandall was pitching for Los Angeles against Salt Lake City. He had a perfect no-hitter going. There were two out in the ninth inning and not a single man had reached base. Then his brother Karl came to bat for Salt Lake. He made a base hit — the only known instance where a no-hitter was spoiled by the pitcher’s own brother.

• Bob Fothergill was a big man. He was a good hitter, but he was sensitive about his weight. As Leo Durocher got ready to pitch against him, he called for “time out” and approached the umpire. When the ump asked what was wrong, Durocher replied, “Don’t you know the rules?” he asked, pointing at Fothergill. “BOTH those guys can’t bat at the same time!” Fothergill was so angry he completely lost his focus and Durocher struck him out.

• Ty Cobb, playing for the Detroit Tigers in 1912, was suspended from play when he had taken all he could from an abusive heckler. Cobb jumped into the stands and started pounding on the man’s head. His sympathetic teammates went on strike. So the manager advertised for new players to fill in the next day at a game in Philadelphia. This impromptu team went up against the world champion Oakland A’s. The pitcher allowed 25 hits and 7 walks in 8 innings, but did manage to get one strike-out. An infielder was hit in the mouth by a ground ball and lost two teeth. An outfielder was hit on the head by a fly ball. This pick-up team got 4 hits and made 10 errors and the final score was 24 - 2. The next day, the regular team members ended their strike, paid their fines, and went back to work -- except for Cobb, who was suspended for 10 days.

• Charlie Grimm was managing the losing Chicago Cubs. One day he got an excited call from his scout saying that he found a pitcher who struck out 27 men in a row. Only one man had even managed to hit a foul. He asked if he should sign the pitcher. Grimm replied, “Sign up the guy who hit the foul. We’re looking for hitters!”

• In 1939, Bob Feller was the best known pitcher in the country, playing for Cleveland. On Mother’s Day, he brought his mother from her Iowa farm to Chicago so she could see him play. A Chicago White Sox batter slugged a foul ball into the stands — where it hit Feller’s mother, knocking her unconscious.

• Germany Schaefer was batting against Nick Altrock. There was a man on first. Schaefer swung and missed a fast ball. Then the pitcher, pretending he was getting ready to throw to the batter, let loose with a fast ball to first base, where the runner was leading off. When he got the ball back, Altrock let fly another scorcher of a fastball across the plate. Schaefer swung

and missed again. He threw down his bat and walked back to the dugout. “Hey,” called the ump, “You’ve only got two strikes!” “No,” replied Schaefer, “It’s three strikes — I swung at that pitch he threw to first base!”

• In the early 1900s, Rube Waddell was such a great pitcher that all batters feared him. One day the pitcher on the opposing team got a great idea: if he could tire Waddell out before the game, his pitching would be off. So he challenged Waddell to a pitching contest. Whichever one of them could throw the farthest

The distance between the pitcher’s mound and home plate is sixty feet, six inches. Why this strange number? Because in 1893 when the measurements were being determined, a hand-drawn diagram used to plot the dimen-sions noted the distance at 60’ 0”. Due to slopy handwriting, the “0” was read as a 6. The odd measurement became official and the extra six inches has remained ever since.



















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• But there was still work to be done. The next batter up was Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ clean-up hitter. She struck him out on three pitches.

• Jackie Mitchell had fanned the “Sultan of Swat” and the “Iron Horse” back-to-back! The crowd rose to its feet in a lengthy and thunderous standing ovation.

• Jackie pitched to one more batter, allowing a walk, before the manager pulled her out and sent Barfoot back in. The Yankees won 14 – 4.

• The next day Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said, “I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”

• The news of Jackie’s strikeouts quickly spread across the country, and fan mail poured in. One envelope had no address written on it aside from the words, “To: The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth.” The post office knew exactly where to deliver it.

• A few days later, the baseball commissioner voided her contract, declaring that women were unfit to play baseball because it was “too strenuous.” In 1952, Major League Baseball formally banned women from contracts, a ban

that lasted until 1992.• Crushed, Jackie began pitching in exhibition

games. At 19, she signed with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their long hair and beards. She traveled with them until 1937, but eventually got tired of the “sideshow” aspects of her career, such as having to wear a fake beard to get laughs from the crowd, and pitching an inning while riding a donkey.

• She retired at 23, but continued to play with local teams. She refused to come out of retirement when the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed in 1943.

• In 1982, she was invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Chattanooga Lookouts on their season opening day. She died in 1987 at age 74, and was buried in Chattanooga.

• Her mentor, Dazzy Vance, went on to pitch major league for Brooklyn, and was the only pitcher to lead the National League in strikeouts for seven consecutive seasons. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and died in 1961.










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was on third, Dazzy Vance on second, and Chick Fewster was on first. Babe Herman came up to bat and hit a long one. DeBerry ran home and scored. Vance advanced to third and decided to stay there. Fewster ran to second and was on his way to third when he saw that Vance had stopped, so he turned around and went back to second. But Babe Herman was running full speed ahead, past first, past second, and on to third. At third he made a great slide, only to find Vance already occupying the base. Fewster stood halfway between second and third, wondering what he should do. The third baseman got the ball and began tagging everybody in sight. When the umpire recovered his senses, he called Herman and Fewster out, and Vance safe. It took half an hour for the audience to stop laughing, and it spawned a popular joke: “How’s the game going?” “Brooklyn has three men on base!” “Oh really? Which base?”

• Herman Schaefer, playing for Washington in 1910, was on first and a teammate was on third. Schaefer stole second, hoping the catcher would try to throw him out, giving the teammate on third a chance to go for home. But the catcher didn’t make the throw. So Schaefer stole first base back. The rule book revealed no rule against stealing bases backwards. When play resumed, Schaefer stole second again. The catcher threw (too late) and the teammate on third scored. Later the rules were amended and stealing backwards became an automatic out.

• Herman Schaefer once hit a homer out of the park. He slid into first, slid into second, slid into third, and slid home.

• In Fenway Park, rules declare that if a batted

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• In 1984, Dave Klingman went to bat for the Oakland Athletics against the Minnesota Twins. Klingman hit a fly ball that penetrated the protective netting of the Metrodome ceiling 180 feet up. It never fell. Umpires called it a ground rule double. When the ball was retrieved by the groundskeeper, it was sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

• In 1920, the Cleveland Indians were up against Brooklyn in the World Series. Bill Wambsganss was in center field for the Indians when he caught a fly for one out. The speed of his running jump carried him to second base, where he tagged out the second base runner who had been heading for third. Then he got another easy out by tagging the first base runner heading for second. It was an unassisted triple play. The crowd was silent while they tried to figure out what had happened and how many outs there were. When realization set in, fans went wild.

• Mike Grady, third baseman for the New York Giants, holds the distinction of making the most errors in one play. In 1895, he missed a ground ball and the batter reached first. He overthrew the ball to first, and the batter got to second. When the runner headed for third, the first base man threw to Grady, but he dropped it and the runner raced home, whereupon Grady threw the ball over the catcher’s head. Four errors on a single play - and the runner scored!

• In 1931, the Braves were losing to the Cardinals, 12-0. Rabbit Maranville called time out and gathered the team for an infield conference. They gathered in a football-type huddle. Rabbit called the signals, someone snapped the baseball back to him, and the players went crazy tackling each other.

• In September 2008, the Giants’ Bengie Molina hit a high fly ball that struck the top of the right field wall, and he held up at first base. Emmanuel Burriss was sent in to pinch-run for

him. Nothing seemed amiss until Omar Vizquel told Giants manager Bruce Bochy he thought he heard the ball hit the metal roof above the wall. Bochy then asked the umpires to watch the replay, which they did, and the call was reversed. Molina actually had himself a two-run homer. But the umps wouldn’t let Molina come back to finish the trot since Burriss was already in the game and couldn’t exit. Molina is the first player in Major League history to hit an official home run -- and yet not score!

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Q: I want to know if there is any way I can attach my husband’s Social Security in order to collect on his bad debts. We were married for 20 years. He maxed out our credit cards, buying all kinds of things (cars, boats, camp-ers, etc.) I didn’t think we needed. Then he ran

off with another woman (taking the camper and boat) and left me with all the bills. I was hound-ed by some pretty aggressive bill collectors, and I finally paid off all his debt. He has no plans to pay me back. So I want to know this: Can I attach his Social Security in order to get back the money that he owes me? By the way, I have worked and have my own Social Security, but it’s a little less than he would be due.

A: It sounds like you need a good lawyer, not a Social Security guy. But since you asked, I’ll address your question. As a general rule, Social Security benefits can only be garnished to collect back taxes or to collect past due child support. So I’m afraid you won’t be able to “attach” his Social Security. I normally don’t want to wish ill on any person. But I might make an exception in your husband’s case. Let’s hope that he drops dead! That’s the only way you will be able to touch his Social Security, by collecting widow’s benefits on his account. * * *

Q: After almost 40 years of marriage, my husband left me for a much younger and pretti-er woman. We’re still married, and I don’t plan to give him a divorce because I want to get back at him by collecting his Social Security. He’s 62 but says he doesn’t plan to file for Social Security until he is 70. He would never let me work outside the home, so I don’t have my own Social Security. I am also 62. How will I be able to get the spousal benefits I’m due if he refuses to sign up for Social Security?

A: You can get the benefits you are due on his record by dumping his sorry butt! As long as you remain married to him, the law assumes he is sup-porting you so it won’t let you get any of his Social Security until he does. And you certainly don’t want to wait until age 70 for that to happen. But if you get a divorce, then you will be eligible for benefits right away. That’s because the law allows a divorced woman to collect wife’s benefits from her ex-husband’s Social Security record even if he isn’t getting benefits himself. He must be old enough to be eligible for Social Security. And he is, because you said he’s 62 years old. So see a divorce lawyer, and

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ANSWER: Barrett’s esophagus is a change in the kind of cells that line the lowermost part of the esophagus, the part that attaches to the stomach. That change brings with it a chance of further, can-cer changes. The risk is quite small, about 0.5 per-cent per year. Barrett’s esophagus happens to people who have GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease, more popularly called heartburn. You take a medicine, Prilosec, that suppresses the production of stomach acid. Medicines that act similarly sometimes can re-tard the progression of these cell changes into can-cer cells. They most definitely control heartburn. Barrett’s also can happen to people who do not have GERD. The chance of cancer developing depends on a number of criteria. One is the kind of cells that have evolved. If they show low-grade changes, the likelihood of cancer is not as great as it would be if they show high-grade changes. The length of the area involved with these changes is another factor in determining the cancer risk. You must not have had signs that raise the risk for cancer, or the doctor would have recom-mended immediate treatment. About the only thing you need to do is comply with the suggested follow-up scope exams so the doctor can see if any proce-dures are needed to eradicate these new cells. You don’t have to sit around and worry. You have not re-ceived a death sentence. The booklet on GERD (heartburn) explains this common disorder and its treatments. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 501W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada. with the recipient’s printed name and ad-dress. Please allow four weeks for delivery. ***

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On April 2, 1513, near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon comes ashore on the Florida coast and claims the territory for the Spanish crown. Ponce de Leon is credited with the first recorded landing and the first detailed exploration of the Florida coast.

On April 3, 1776, because it lacked sufficient funds to build a strong navy, the Continental Congress gives privateers per-mission to attack British ships. Any goods captured by the privateer were divided between the ship’s owner and the govern-ment.

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Ironstone Gives Collectors the Blues Q: This is a photo of an antique platter that is part of a service for a 12-set of dishes that I inherited. It was given to my grandpar-ents when they were married around 1900. The set includes serving pieces, and it is in mint condition. Marked on the back of each dish is a crown and the words “Clive -- Royal Semi Porcelain -- Wood and Son -- England -- Reg. 349589.” I am planning on having the set insured and want to know what the replacement cost might be. Also, anything you can tell me about the history, vintage and value of my set of dish-es will be appreciated.

A: You have a set of ironstone Flow Blue dishes that was made by Wood and Sons. They have made ironstone and earthenware in Staffordshire, England, since1865. Cobalt Blue was used to create the patterns on white backgrounds from 1820 to the early 1900s. During the process, the color bled or flowed outside the design and appeared blurry, thus the name, Flow Blue. A myriad of patterns were decorated with Asian scenes, landscapes and floral motifs. Although most examples were made in England, many were made in the United States. “Clive” is the name of the pattern and “Reg. 349589” is the British Registry number that shows the design of your dishes was registered in 1899. Your set should be insured for at least $5,000 to $7,000. * * *

Q: I have enclosed the mark that is on the back of a set of dinnerware that belonged to my mother-in-law. The set is a service for eight. Each piece is decorated with a garden scene of a man playing a musical instrument and ser-enading two women. They are all wearing 18th-century clothes, and the edges of all the dishes are trimmed in gold. I remember my mother collecting each individual piece when she went

to the movies. What can you tell me about my dishes?

A: Limoges China Company made your dishes. They were located in Sebring, Ohio, from 1900 to 1955 and produced china to compete with fine porcelain made in Limoges, France. One of the manufacturers in Limoges, France, objected to them using the “Limoges” name, and the name was changed to the American Limoges China Company. In the early 1900s especially during the De-pression, movie theatres often offered premiums to encourage attendance. Your set was made between 1930 and 1940 and would probably be worth $175 to $325.

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How often do you hit a great approach shot in their close tothe hole only to gag the putt? Yes, you heard me. The heartis pounding, the nerves are bouncing like ping pong ballsthrough your body. And your hands get stone cold and youchoke!The key to making more putts, especially the short ones youknow you should make. The ones that would cut yourhandicap in half if you could only sneak them in somehow, is to keep the hands moving through the ball to the hole.When setting up for a putt, we setup in reference to our pathto the target known as the target line. Set up to the ball withyour feet square or slightly open to the target line, this willallow your body to be angled slightly towards the target to create the sensation in the stroke of pushing or underhandtossing the ball along the path to the hole.The ball is positioned on the instep of the left foot. This willcreate a slightly upward motion in the stroke to get the ballrolling smoothly on the putting surface. As the ball is positioned on the left foot instep, have your hands slightlyforward, in relation to the putter face, so that the top of the grip is level with the front of the ball.Since your goal in the putting stroke is to swing the putterstraight back and through along the target line, setting up tothe ball so your eyes are directly over the ball will help youvisually achieve that goal.Now you’re ready to make the stroke. I want you to imagine a “finish line” approximately one foot in front of your ball, on linewith your target. The key to making putts is to have the handsand the putter face move together in the forward stroke, at the same speed, to that “finish line.”The reason why so many golfers miss hit these putts is thatthey stop just after impact, probably to be a spectator and seewhere the ball is going. Do not react to making contact withthe ball and keep your hands and putter face moving togetherto your “finish line”.

Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top TeacherWest Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You cancontact him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries about your golf.

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Stroke Through to Your Finish Line to Make Putts

How often do you hit a great approach shot in their close tothe hole only to gag the putt? Yes, you heard me. The heartis pounding, the nerves are bouncing like ping pong ballsthrough your body. And your hands get stone cold and youchoke!The key to making more putts, especially the short ones youknow you should make. The ones that would cut yourhandicap in half if you could only sneak them in somehow, is to keep the hands moving through the ball to the hole.When setting up for a putt, we setup in reference to our pathto the target known as the target line. Set up to the ball withyour feet square or slightly open to the target line, this willallow your body to be angled slightly towards the target to create the sensation in the stroke of pushing or underhandtossing the ball along the path to the hole.The ball is positioned on the instep of the left foot. This willcreate a slightly upward motion in the stroke to get the ballrolling smoothly on the putting surface. As the ball is positioned on the left foot instep, have your hands slightlyforward, in relation to the putter face, so that the top of the grip is level with the front of the ball.Since your goal in the putting stroke is to swing the putterstraight back and through along the target line, setting up tothe ball so your eyes are directly over the ball will help youvisually achieve that goal.Now you’re ready to make the stroke. I want you to imagine a “finish line” approximately one foot in front of your ball, on linewith your target. The key to making putts is to have the handsand the putter face move together in the forward stroke, at the same speed, to that “finish line.”The reason why so many golfers miss hit these putts is thatthey stop just after impact, probably to be a spectator and seewhere the ball is going. Do not react to making contact withthe ball and keep your hands and putter face moving togetherto your “finish line”.

Rob Stanger is recognized as a 2005-08 Golf Magazine Top TeacherWest Region. He teaches at The College Golf Center. You cancontact him at 760-409-8628 or at www.robstanger.com for inquiries about your golf.

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Stroke through to your finish line to make putts How many times have you hit a great approach shot in there close to the hole, only to gag the putt? It’s exasperating! And we’ve all had the experience. There’s a key to sinking those putts, especially the short ones you know you should make. That key is to keep your hands moving through the ball along the target line, that invisible line that runs between the ball and the hole. When setting up for a putt, it’s important to have your feet square or slightly open to the target line with your body angled slightly toward the target to create the sen-sation in the stroke of pushing or underhand tossing the ball along the path to the hole. Position the ball on the instep of the left foot. This creates a slightly upward motion in the stroke to get the ball rolling smoothly. Have your hands slightly forward so that the top of your grip is in line with the front of the ball. Your goal is to swing the putter head straight back and then keep your forward stroke along that same target line through the ball. Keep-ing your eyes directly over the ball will help you visually achieve this goal. Now imagine a “finish line” along that target line about a foot ahead of the ball. That’s where you want both your hands and the putter face to finish in your swing. The key to making putts is to have your hands and the club face move together in the stroke, at the same speed, all the way through. The reason so many golfers gag these putts is be-cause they halt their stroke just after impact and lose the all-important effect of proper follow through with hands and putter face at the “finish line”.

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PHOBIAS (continued):

• Some phobias relate to what’s up above,such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds(nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia),and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks arejust afraid of looking up – they are calledanablephobes.

•Not all phobias seem that abnormal oruncommon.Lotsofpeoplemighthaveafearof death, known as necrophobia. But thosewith an extreme form might be terrified ofbeing buried alive.A nosocomephobe has afearofhospitals,averminophobeisafraidofgerms,andahydrophobehasanirrationalfearofwater.

• Individuals suffering from extreme agora-phobiararelyleavetheirhomes,duetotheirfearofpublicoropenspacesand the inescapablesituationsthatmayoccurthere.Onlyhomeissafe.

• Somephobiascanbea learnedbehavior thatcomes from listening to others describe atraumaticevent.Anindividualinone’slifecantriggeraphobia,suchaspeladophobia,thefearofbaldpeople.Thosewithnosto-phobia,afearof returninghome,maybeable tocontributetheirpanictoaspecificincident.

• Peoplewhoareafraidoflookingintomirrorshave cataptrophobia, while those with cyberphobia have a fear of working withcomputers.A person with an anxiety aboutmemories is a mnemophobe.

•Don’tconfuselevophobia, thefearofobjectstoaperson’sleft,withdextrophobia, thefearofobjectstotheright.

•Although some of us fear the possibility ofcancer,anextremecarcinophobewillconvincehimself he has cancer because he touchedsomeone who has it.

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• Texas University was up against the Yankees in an exhibition game when Lou Gehrig came up to bat. There were two runners on base and it was three and two for Gehrig. The catcher signaled the pitcher, the pitcher nodded — then threw a perfectly straight ball right to home plate. Gehrig sent it clear over the center field bleachers. The catcher marched up to the pitcher, ranting at him for not paying attention to the signals. “Why did you throw him such an easy pitch?” he yelled. The pitcher had no remorse. “I got to thinking,” he said. “I’ll never pitch a Big League game or get to play at Yankee Stadium, and I sure did want to see Gehrig bust just one right outta the park!”

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1. GEOGRAPHY: The Gulf of Sidra lies off what African nation?

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4. MUSIC: What kind of instrument is an Appalachian dulcimer?

5. LANGUAGE: What is an inter-robang?

6. FAIRY TALES: What kind of poi-soned fruit does the evil Queen give Snow White?

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9. HISTORY: When was the Magna Carta imposed to prohibit arbitrary royal acts?

10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the early Roman term for the month of July?

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3. Who was the first Pittsburgh Steeler to rush for 1,000 yards in a season?

4. Name the first 10th seed vs. 15th seed men’s basketball matchup in NCAA Tournament history.

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6. Name the youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup season champion-ship.

7. In 2013, Bob and Mike Bryan became the most successful tennis team in Grand Slam history, winning a 13th doubles title. Who were they tied with?

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1. What was on the flip side of “Instant Karma!” and when was it released?

2. Who wrote and released “25 or 6 to 4,” aka “Twenty-Five or Six to Four”? What’s it about?

3. Name the duo with the 1968 release of “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing.”

4. What was the name of the song released in 1962 by Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen? (Clue: foreign city)

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.”

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On),” released as a solo by John Len-non in 1970, had “Who Has Seen the Wind?” by Yoko Ono on the b-side.

2. Penned by the band Chicago’s organist/vocalist Robert Lamm, the song is allegedly about time of day and having been up all night writing.

3. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Ter-rell. Elton John and Marcella Detroit followed in 1993 with a version for John’s 1993 album “Duets.”

4. “Midnight in Moscow.”5. “The Boys of Summer,” released

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