Posted on 02/18/2005 5:40:49 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Okay, but who's going to play her in the made for TV movie?
NO mention of this anywhere else in the "news-world".My fantasy baseball " keeper list" has to be turned in by midnight tonight.
I will now keep Uggie because he will now probably come back to U.S. and pitch this year. Thanks again for posting.
I didn't ever imagine my two vices--Fantasy Baseball and FReepers would ever mingle together.
Hot off the press, it's in Spanish, but it's confirmed:
http://economia.eluniversal.com/2005/02/18/suc_ava_18A533965.shtml
This is very good news. I can't imagine the stress he has been under since last summer. It's all because the money he makes playing baseball is more than most Venezuelans can even imagine making. Two years ago, another Venezuelan ballplayer, Richard Hidalgo, was shot in the arm during an attempted carjacking while visiting his hometown. Fortunately, it did no permanent damage but the vulnerability of Venezuelan ballplayers and their families is a serious problem in that country.
Quite right - I'm so relieved for Uggy.
Here is the Reuters version:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18492359.htm
Venezuela police rescue U.S. pitcher Urbina's mom
19 Feb 2005 03:09:16 GMT
Source: Reuters
CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Venezuelan police have rescued the kidnapped mother of U.S. major league baseball player Ugueth Urbina after a gun battle with her abductors at a hide-out in the country's southeast, authorities said Friday.
Local television images showed Maura Villareal looking exhausted and tearful as she was escorted by camouflage-clad officers late Friday into a Caracas police headquarters.
"We entered the area and later traveled by boat to reach the camp used by the kidnappers," said Joel Rengifo, head of the police anti-kidnap squad. "There was a clash with the subjects, one of them was killed there."
More than five months ago, gunmen broke into the Urbina family home on the outskirts of Caracas and took his mother hostage. The Venezuelan-born Urbina returned home soon after the Sept. 1 kidnapping.
During the abduction, the kidnappers identified themselves as police officers.
Urbina, who plays for the Detroit Tigers, was a star relief pitcher for the World Series champion Florida Marlins in 2003.
The Urbina case underscored the problem of violent crime in Venezuela, where murders, drug-running and kidnappings are common, especially along the border with Colombia.
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