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If anyone's still reading down here, Andrew wrote ...

2006-11-27T01:32:00.000-05:00

If anyone's still reading down here, Andrew wrote back in to say that Ryan Howard's father is a doctor who provided a nice suburban home for him. Also, rather humorously, his name is Ron. Ron Howard.

After an extremely cursory search, I didn't find a definitive source to back up the doctor part, but his name is definitely Ron.

Alert: Ryan Howard may not actually have been a ri...

2006-11-25T14:22:00.000-05:00

Alert: Ryan Howard may not actually have been a rich white suburbanite. Brad writes: "I just wanted to let you know that there is a high probability that Ryan Howard is actually from the city of St. Louis . Lafayette is in St. Louis County which is predominately white, but kids from the city are bused out to the suburbs through a de-segregation program in order to make more diverse classrooms."

Shouldn't "Reviving Baseball in the Inner City" be...

2006-11-21T17:37:00.000-05:00

Shouldn't "Reviving Baseball in the Inner City" be: RBIC?

Love,

Ken Tremendous

P.S. I am in Argentina. There is some crazy bad writing about Boca Juniors over here.

Junior here. Reader Andrew provides this amusing ...

2006-11-21T15:18:00.000-05:00

Junior here. Reader Andrew provides this amusing information: "As a side note, Smith suggests that Howard's success should encourage scouts to focus more efforts on recruiting black, inner-city talent. Please note that Ryan Howard went to the same high school (Lafayette Senior High) as my girlfriend. That school's student population is 84% white."