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There was no doubt that Roberto Clemente was bound for the Hall of Fame when he stepped off the field on Oct. 11, 1972, at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati the day the Reds eliminated his Pirates in Game 5 of that year’s National League Championship Series. Less than two ....
There was no doubt that Roberto Clemente was bound for the Hall of Fame when he stepped off the field on Oct. 11, 1972, at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati the day the Reds eliminated his Pirates in Game 5 of that year’s National League Championship Series. Less than two ....
Laying America’s heroes to rest is a big responsibility. “When you're at a veterans funeral, it hits you every time,” said Hilary Samples while planting flags at gravesites Friday. "Taps starts playing, the flag is handed over to loved ones. It's emotional." ....
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in a humorous, dramatic and historical tapestry of antebellum America. Spittle flies. Ethan Hawke s eyes are a cloudy blue, his teeth crooked, his beard prophetically long and more salt than pepper. He is shouting Old Testament scripture in a quavering whiskey growl and pop-quizzing his sons about Bible verses in the thick of a gunfight. Hawke is John Brown, the violent anti-slavery crusader who collaborated with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, famously raided the federal armoury at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and stoked the Civil War. Playing America s abolitionist vigilante in the Showtime limited series ....