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The Yankees Loooose, the Yankees Loooose

A-Rod and Jeta had chances to make their legends grow. Big strikeouts in big events in the big ballpark in the South Bronx offered opportunities that ballplayers live for. Beyond their primes and overmatched, they failed, as predicted by the baseball gods who know when players should hang up their cleats. Sterling, who was featured in last weeks NYT, didn’t get to do his call.

But, baseball doesn’t end because the Yankees lose for this fan who also loves the game. How about that Philly/Cards game, sportsfans. And, in today’s NYT, Ken Belson images the “Fat Toad,” making me long for more.

Steve Jobs, Dead at 56

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The most important apple in my life, today. Interact more than once a day to keep old age and banality away. Have a Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, I Pad2 and Apple TV. Steve Jobs supports my creativity and surrounds my vision of and sefl-worth with tools that make me a better person, in addition to one who feels better about himself.

Highland Cemetery, Greenfield MA

Beck’s grave. A gnome with a shovel on a gravestone.

Mathey served as a fireman, though I thought the hydrant might have been a symbol that he liked to walk his dog.

Meriott hunted.

Conant lived here.

What anniversary? Put a photo on a grave? Not mine. But, perhaps, there should be a link to a web page with more images of them, so we could see them in real life.