July 7, 2003

2003 Indy 500 Winner Gil de Ferran Sings During the 7th Inning Stretch and Dusty Baker Has Quotes that
Keep Him in the News for the Whole Week.

The Press Box is Hot and Humid and it's Only Warm Up time
on the Field.
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2003 Indy 500 Winner Gil de Ferran with Oak
Park Journal Sports Editor Dan Peters in Front
of Wrigley Park
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Gil de Ferran Signs His Name for Some
Racing Fans
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Sosa Relaxes A Moment During Warm Up
and it was more than More Enough to Start
With.
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Sammy Sosa pauses a moment to reflect on
something.
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Cub's Manager Dusty Baker and Oak Park Journal
Editor Talk About the Heat and Humidity...before
the Quotes Start
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Cub's manager, Dusty Baker is taller than me, but he says he can't grow a beard. I told him one day I would loan him mine.  On a hot and humid day like today he might be welcome to it.  I did ask him how he enjoyed the weather and he said it wasn't too bad.  We also noted that the Marlins would probably do fine in the weather too and that it would be better for us if the team had just come in from a more northern climate.  Baker is a personable fellow so we spoke a moment about batters being able to read the catcher's signals.   I told him I had spoken to some Triple A (AAA) pitchers who told me they were upset when batters tried to spy on their catchers signals.  Dusty Baker told me he knew of no one who could read catcher's codes and said they would have to have eyes in the back of their head.  He would like to have some guys who could read signals he added with a smile "we'd get even more hits.."  When I left the field with Dusty
Baker all hell broke loose when he was quoted as saying that Blacks and Latinos could take the heat better than Whites.  He did seem to be
taking the heat better than me.  The week that
followed had everyone and their brother getting what he said wrong and making a lot of much to do with nothing.  We won the game
nonetheless.

Sammy Sosa Drives a Run In and Helps the
Team Win 6 to 3 over the Marlins
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The Roof Tops are Cooking and Enjoying the Game.
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The Scoreboard has Everyone's Attention
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2003 Indy 500 Winner Gil de Ferran Sings During the 7th
Inning Stretch
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When I spoke with Gil earlier I asked how his singing voice was and he told me, "not that good".  We also
found out that he was a Marlin's fan, but we kept that
a secret until after he sang.  I asked why he didn't sing
the song in Portugese, his native language from Brazil.
He said that it was enough to learn the song in English, and not enough time for more than one language.  He was in good spirits and sang pretty well too.

Vendors wait for the Crowds, as others Head home.
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