Shortstop makes outstanding "catch".Nomar Garciaparra Anthony Nomar Garciaparra[1] (born July 23, 1973, in Whittier, California) is a Mexican-American baseball player who currently plays third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers. is known to the fans in Wrigley Field For the former ballpark in Los Angeles, see . • • [ as the Chicago Cubs shortstop who wears number 5. He has a lifetime batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. of .320 and like most Major League Baseball players This list consists of Major League Baseball players, both past and current, who have a biographic article (members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with a β). For a list of other players for whom an article does not yet exist, see: Wikipedia:Requested articles/sports. is well paid, earning $8,250,000 in 2005. From 1996 through 2004, however, Garciaparra played for the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. , where he still has many fans and friends. On the evening of October 7, Nomar Garciaparra and his uncle and business adviser, Victor, were back in Boston, cleaning and painting a riverside condo both men own jointly in Charlestown. They could hear the sounds of laughing from the river walk beneath them. Victor explained to a Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper reporter what happened next: "Then we heard a splash, and it sounded kind of close. We looked down and saw someone in the water, and so Nomar started running down." Victor followed Nomar down toward the river. As they raced downstairs, a second woman fell off a balcony. Victor continued his story: "When she fell, it was about a 12- or 15-foot drop, and I thought she had hit the deck of the pier, so I jumped off a balcony. I figured she was probably unconscious." "I swam towards them and by the time I reached them Nomar was already there holding the girls up," Victor said in another interview with the Boston Herald The Boston Herald is a tabloid format newspaper, though not a tabloid in the traditional sense, and is the smaller of the two big dailies in Boston, Massachusetts (the other being The Boston Globe). . "But he couldn't get them out without help." The two men pulled the women out of the water and onto the dock. "The girl who hit her head had a baseball-sized lump on it and she was out of it," said Victor. "It was pretty scary." A man named Johnny O'Hara, who was working on his boat that evening and witnessed the incident, told his story to the Herald: "A bunch of us came running over and, sure enough, pulling the two girls out of the water was Nomar. It was crazy. Nomar was like jumping over walls to get to the girls and the other guy leaped off the balcony! It was unbelievable. They were really nice guys and it was a pretty cool story." According to the Tribune, Victor Garciaparra told reporters that the two women's husbands quickly arrived and drove them to an area hospital. |
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