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Sliding just like Jackie Robinson
Had his whole career been for this? To wear another man’s number? And to wear it so proudly? Late last spring, Jasha Balcom buttoned his thick wool jersey as he prepared for a day of filming “42,” the film about Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers ballplayer who desegregated Major League ...
Oakland Cemetery tour recalls Atlanta’s baseball heritage
The city is in ruins — buildings toppled by cannon fire, chimneys tottering amid the rubble, train tracks torched and twisted by an army burning its way to the sea. In the spring of 1866, Atlanta bears the bruises of war. It is a hellish time. And yet, on the ...
WWII veteran takes trip in time in B-17
They were so young — farm boys and city kids, all of them suddenly called men. The U.S. Army gave them uniforms and readied them for a global conflict. That was Rudolph Phillips’ job. He taught them the intricacies of aiming a .50-caliber machine gun and blowing enemy airplanes out ...
Summer’s gift
The hair. It had been a point of pride; long, dark tresses that cascaded past her shoulders. It shone in the sun. And now it was coming out in clumps. The chemo did that. She made a hard choice. On a sunny November afternoon last year, she sat in a ...
A shriek, some muffled howls…then quiet…Soap Sally claims another victim…
PORTERDALE — Life was good — might have been perfect a few decades back, but for that long bridge over the Yellow River. As every local kid knew, under that span lurked a monster. At dusk, when Porterdale’s children were heading home from a day at play, she was likely ...
Sinise band to play at Verizon to help disabled vets
He was in a wheelchair only to film “Forrest Gump,” but that was enough. Gary Sinise finished that movie with an even greater commitment to help veterans who, like the character he portrayed, Lt. Dan, had suffered catastrophic injuries.Sinise is bringing that resolve to the metro area. He and the ...
Holiday Heroes: Co-workers help out with medical costs
When they learned a colleague’s wife faced unanticipated bills stemming from emergency surgery, workers at the Rite Aid in Dallas did more than just wish the couple good luck.On a fall day, they held a $5-a-plate potluck lunch and raffle for pharmacist Mark Smith. They collected $6,500, enough to help ...
Cumming man donates kidney to stranger
Charlie Pitts usually wasn’t on the road at lunchtime, but the business meeting ran longer than he’d anticipated. The Cumming resident reached for the radio in his car and tuned it from his preferred morning drive-time station to 104.7 WFSH the Fish, a favorite Christian station.It was a move that ...
Civil War treasures get star treatment
Joshua Hill knelt at the grave of Fleming Jordan, Company G, the 4th Georgia Infantry. Around him, markers commemorating other men — soldiers from Ohio and Michigan, from Alabama and the Carolinas — stretched in all directions. It was July 1866, and the stones were new; the recently ended war ...
Mother’s plea really clicks
The toys. They ran the gamut from action figures to little dolls waiting for young arms to hold them close. And the clothes! They formed a mountain, jackets and shirts and skirts, any size a child would need.The love? The room where the toys and clothes piled up could not ...
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