Yogi Berra News
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Ibrahim Vajzovic sits behind a large wooden desk at First Bosnian Insurance Agency, the company he started in St. Louis eight years ago, and talks about the values of education and hard work. It’s one of three businesses he owns, in addition to teaching a course at Webster University, a liberal-arts college in Webster Groves.
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This week marks the beginning of the U.S. budget season. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin will present the budget for House Republicans. Senator Patty Murray of Washington will, for the first time since 2009, present a budget on behalf of Senate Democrats. In a few weeks, the Barack Obama administration will publish its own budget. In honor of the occasion, Americans everywhere will wear traditional budget-season hats and eat the customary budget- season meals, which include, of course, a rich dessert that we assume will be offset by future weight loss.
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Miami might be the worst place for a baseball manager to mouth off about the virtues of a onetime pitcher named Fidel Castro.
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New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra won’t be at the team’s Old-Timers Day this afternoon after falling at his home last night.
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In the autumn of 1977, John Mariani and his new wife, Galina, took a culinary drive across the U.S. that ground to a halt in Birmingham, Alabama, when a waitress in velveteen shorts served up a really terrible steak.
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Ralph Houk , the New York Yankees manager who replaced legendary skipper Casey Stengel and won two World Series titles in the Bronx, has died. He was 90.
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George Steinbrenner , the mercurial and free-spending owner of the New York Yankees who presided over the restoration of one of the great franchises in professional sports after turning it into baseball’s version of a soap opera, has died. He was 80.
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George Steinbrenner will be remembered for being as much a part of the New York Yankees as Hall of Fame players Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle , Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said.
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More than 100 bankers claim Commerzbank AG broke a pledge by Dresdner Bank, which it bought in 2009, to set aside about $516 million for bonuses and are asking a U.K. court this week to order that they be paid.
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Bill “Moose” Skowron, a first baseman who played on four New York Yankees world championship teams, died today at the age of 81, the team said.
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