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Tributes Pour In for Don Baylor, ’86 Red Sox Hero

Matthew McDonald

Don Baylor, 68, died Monday, August 7 of multiple myeloma. He was a leader of the Boston Red Sox team that won the American League pennant in 1986 in unlikely fashion; during the season he ran a kangaroo court demanding fines for players who made mental errors, and in the crucial Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the California Angels he hit a two-run home run late that made the astounding comeback possible.

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New Hampshire To Provide Voter Information To Trump Commission

Matthew McDonald

The American Civil Liberties Union objected to the release of a statewide voter database because state law prohibits that, but the secretary of state of New Hampshire, Bill Gardiner, said he intended all along to release a less extensive voter checklist, with state law explicitly states is public information.

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