GaryMrMets
12-03-2005, 12:49 AM
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Bosox sue Doug for Series ball
NEWS WIRE SERVICES
The Red Sox asked a Suffolk Superior Court judge in Boston to let the team keep the ball that Doug Mientkiewicz caught for the final out that clinched Boston's 2004 World Series title.
Ownership of the ball has been in dispute during the 13 months since pitcher Keith Foulke flipped it to Mientkiewicz, giving Boston a four-game sweep of the Cardinals and its first World Series championship in 86 years.
Mientkiewicz later put the ball in a safe deposit box and claimed ownership when the Red Sox asked for it. In January, after he was traded to the Mets, he loaned the ball to the Red Sox for one year. He would get it back "unless the ultimate issue of ownership has been otherwise resolved," the agreement said. The suit was filed Wednesday.
•Reliever Tim Worrell is rejoining the Giants after agreeing to a $4 million, two-year contract yesterday. He played the last two seasons with the Phillies and D-Backs. •Free agent catcher Sal Fasano and the Phillies agreed to a $425,000, one-year pact.
•Ichiro Suzuki will play for Japan in the inaugural World Baseball Classic next March, said a person within MLB who requested anonymity. Baseball plans to announce rosters Monday during the winter meetings in Dallas.
PRO BASKETBALL: Tony Parker's season-high 30 points included a go-ahead layup with 35 seconds left, Michael Finley made three key free throws and the visiting Spurs held on to beat the Mavericks, 92-90.
•The Nuggets suspended guard Voshon Lenard for one game without pay for conduct detrimental to the team. Lenard lost his starting job to DerMarr Johnson in mid-November.
•The Michigan Mayhem signed Roy Tarpley, the 40-year-old seven-footer who last played in the NBA in 1995 and who has been in a drug-treatment facility in Houston run by ex-NBAer John Lucas for a year. Tarpley played his college ball at Michigan. The Mayhem play in Muskegon.
SKIING: Hannes Reichelt of Austria won a super-G race in Beaver Creek, Colo., for his first World Cup victory less than nine months after tearing knee ligaments, as American Bode Miller skied off course in snowy and windy conditions.
TENNIS: John McEnroe, 46, will play doubles with Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden at the SAP Open in San Jose, Calif., in February, his first ATP tournament on U.S. soil since the 1992 U.S. Open.
Originally published on December 2, 2005
Sports Wire
Bosox sue Doug for Series ball
NEWS WIRE SERVICES
The Red Sox asked a Suffolk Superior Court judge in Boston to let the team keep the ball that Doug Mientkiewicz caught for the final out that clinched Boston's 2004 World Series title.
Ownership of the ball has been in dispute during the 13 months since pitcher Keith Foulke flipped it to Mientkiewicz, giving Boston a four-game sweep of the Cardinals and its first World Series championship in 86 years.
Mientkiewicz later put the ball in a safe deposit box and claimed ownership when the Red Sox asked for it. In January, after he was traded to the Mets, he loaned the ball to the Red Sox for one year. He would get it back "unless the ultimate issue of ownership has been otherwise resolved," the agreement said. The suit was filed Wednesday.
•Reliever Tim Worrell is rejoining the Giants after agreeing to a $4 million, two-year contract yesterday. He played the last two seasons with the Phillies and D-Backs. •Free agent catcher Sal Fasano and the Phillies agreed to a $425,000, one-year pact.
•Ichiro Suzuki will play for Japan in the inaugural World Baseball Classic next March, said a person within MLB who requested anonymity. Baseball plans to announce rosters Monday during the winter meetings in Dallas.
PRO BASKETBALL: Tony Parker's season-high 30 points included a go-ahead layup with 35 seconds left, Michael Finley made three key free throws and the visiting Spurs held on to beat the Mavericks, 92-90.
•The Nuggets suspended guard Voshon Lenard for one game without pay for conduct detrimental to the team. Lenard lost his starting job to DerMarr Johnson in mid-November.
•The Michigan Mayhem signed Roy Tarpley, the 40-year-old seven-footer who last played in the NBA in 1995 and who has been in a drug-treatment facility in Houston run by ex-NBAer John Lucas for a year. Tarpley played his college ball at Michigan. The Mayhem play in Muskegon.
SKIING: Hannes Reichelt of Austria won a super-G race in Beaver Creek, Colo., for his first World Cup victory less than nine months after tearing knee ligaments, as American Bode Miller skied off course in snowy and windy conditions.
TENNIS: John McEnroe, 46, will play doubles with Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden at the SAP Open in San Jose, Calif., in February, his first ATP tournament on U.S. soil since the 1992 U.S. Open.
Originally published on December 2, 2005