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Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 28, 2008

Coaches’ big bucks boost expectations

http://www.jacksonsnextmayor.com/ee/mp_sys/index.php?S=b88e9e0f970f389c57e5ee876a954d246d06c715&C=publish&M=entry_form&weblog_id=2 HOOVER, Ala. – When Bobby Petrino was a 14-year-old boy flipping burgers at the A&W restaurant in Helena, Mont., playing baseball with the rest of the boys wasn’t an option. Daddy said work. So every year, Petrino would succumb to odd jobs such as delivering produce, working the dock at a dairy or driving…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 28, 2008

At Baseball Hall of Fame, Links Are Cherished

At Baseball Hall of Fame, Links Are Cherished COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — It was a day of connections Sunday at the annual induction of the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Goose Gossage apologized to Dick Williams, his San Diego Padres manager, for ignoring orders to walk Kirk Gibson in the eighth inning…