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  • #TBT: Former teammates share stories of The Mick

    08/13/2015 1:14:21 AM PDT · by gusopol3 · 5 replies
    MLB.com ^ | August 13. 2015 | Lindsay Berra
    Aug. 13, 2015, marks the 20-year anniversary of the death of Mickey Mantle, the greatest switch-hitter in baseball history. Fans remember Mantle for what he did on the field: he hit .300 or higher a remarkable 10 times, was a three-time American League MVP Award winner and seven-time World Series champion. His tape-measure home runs -- the longest of which allegedly traveled 565 feet out of Griffith Stadium in Washington -- are the stuff of legend. But those who knew Mantle remember him for more than his on-field feats. They recall a big-hearted practical jokester whose quiet courage inspired everyone...
  • Texas College Student Shot and Killed in Mexico

    10/07/2010 11:27:43 AM PDT · by Cindy · 30 replies
    FOX NEWS.com (BROWNSVILLE HERALD) ^ | Published October 07, 2010 | n/a
    SNIPPET: "A Texas college student was shot and killed in Mexico after the bus he was riding on was hijacked by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel, The Brownsville Herald reports. Jonathan William Torres, an 18-year-old college freshman at the University of Texas at Brownsville, was killed Sept. 30 in Matamoros -- just outside Ciudad Mante in the southern part of Tamaulipas -- a university spokeswoman told the newspaper. Torres was reportedly on his way to visit family when his bus was allegedly ambushed by members of Mexican organized crime."