A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : BASEBALL CARD VALUABLE EVEN WITHOUT PICTURE.Bowling Green Bowling Green. 1 City (1990 pop. 40,641), seat of Warren co., S Ky., on the Barren River; inc. 1812. It is a shipping and marketing center for an area producing tobacco, corn, livestock, and dairy items. University in Ohio stands to make up to $850,000 from the sale of a piece of baseball history. The school owns the lineup card used during the game in which Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games played Games played (most often abbreviated as G or GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested. . Umpire A person chosen to decide a question in a controversy that has been submitted to Arbitration but has not been resolved because the arbitrators cannot reach agreement, or one who has been chosen to be a permanent arbitrator for the duration of a collective bargaining agreement. Larry Barnett Lawrence Robert Barnett (born January 3 1945 in Nitro, West Virginia) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1969 to 1999 before becoming the major leagues' supervisor of umpires in 2000-2001. donated the card to Bowling Green in December 1995 in hopes of raising money for student-athletes. The card went on display Saturday at the Wal-Mart in Eldersburg, Md. The school expects to sell it for up to $1 million. Proceeds from the sale, minus a 15 percent seller's fee, will be used to fund football scholarships in the name of Barnett. |
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