Softball Pitcher, 96, Faces 86-Year-Old
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BALDWIN HARBOR, N.Y. - Between them, they had more than 150 years of experience. But in the end, seniority might still have been an advantage when a 93-year-old pitcher took on an 86-year-old rival in a seniors' softball game.
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A few small steps, sure, but certainly one giant leap for right-hander Dave Veres. The 40-year-old former closer who's been out of baseball for two years passed his first big test Friday in his quest to become the first major league pitcher to play with a prosthetic hip.
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com. Once a nearby high schooler and a fan at Dodger Stadium, now you&#39;re pitching in front of the largest crowd in Dodger Stadium history.
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NEW YORK - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
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Japan&#39;s Ichiro Suzuki is poised to break one of the oldest records in major league baseball. The Seattle Mariners outfielder is chasing
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Jim Leyritz, a World Series hero for the Yankees in 1996, faces manslaughter and drunken driving charges in connection with a car accident early Friday morning that killed a 30-year-old woman.
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On paper, it looked like a matchup of youth against age. It even appeared it could have been one of those classic boxer-versus-slugger wars.
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It took Don Porter nearly three decades   to win Olympic status for women's softball and the   septuagenarian is in no mood to step aside before restoring his   sport to the zenith of international competition.
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Last week's duel between 48-year-old New York Met Julio Franco and 44-year-old Yankee Roger Clemens was the oldest batter-pitcher matchup in the major leagues in nearly 75 years. Had their field bosses been the same ages, though, the matchup would have been among the game's youngest.
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For the first time in the postseason, two pitchers over 40 -- Yankees' Randy Johnson, 43, and Tigers' Kenny Rogers, 41 -- face off.
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ATHENS -- Well, there&#39;s one more thing to knock off the list of stuff you didn&#39;t expect to live long enough to witness: watching one of People magazine&#39;s 50 most beautiful people pitch a nearly perfect softball game at the Olympics in ...
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After six perfect innings, Erin Wade broke a pitcher's cardinal rule. The Taunton hurler realized she was pitching a perfect game and then "jinxed myself."
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Shelley Duncan had taken batting practice at Yankee Stadium before he was 15 years old. On Friday, however, he walked into the clubhouse not as a guest, but as a player.
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Don Polries and Helen Vetter don't look like outlaws. She's 82 and nearly blind, and he's an 87-year-old World War II veteran whose only brush with the law was a traffic ticket or two, decades ago.
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The Burlington Fun League, which is where Scott "Nomar" FitzGerald is the all-time home run champion, is the huggable mongrel of all summer softball leagues. Any guy in town over 30 years old is eligible to play, but even that basic rule gets stretched thinner than a politician's promise if, say, a young and spry townie shows the ability to ...
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LAWTON, Okla. - A 72-year-old great-grandmother is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq and will become one of the oldest Department of Defense civilian workers in the war zone.
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They&#39;ve won thanks to 12-year-old spoiled brats sitting in the bleachers. They&#39;ve won thanks to Hall of Fame pitchers firing 95-mile fastballs, nasty sliders and the jagged shards of a broken bat.