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Foreign-born players in Major League Baseball drops to lowest percentage since 2014

NEW YORK (AP) — The percentage of players born outside the 50 states in Major League Baseball dropped to its lowest level since 2014 while Japan's 14 were its most since 2010. There were 249 players from 16 nations and territories outside of the 50 states among 948 players on opening day active rosters and injured and restricted lists, the commissioner's office said Friday. The 26.3% was down from 27.8% last year and the lowest since 26.3% in 2014. The high of 29.8% was in 2017. This year's total represents a drop of 21 players from 2023, when 270 set the high for a season with ...

Should America have a red line?

President Trump has acted as no other president has by unleashing a war on Iran whose objective is not only preventing the ayatollahs from ever building a nuclear weapon but ideally (though unmentioned) replacing the fanatics with leaders more friendly to Israel and the West and delivering ...

An Evening of Pre-War Blues at the Alpena County Library

The Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library will host An Evening of Pre-War Blues Music event on March 19 at 5:30 p.m. This event is a musical and historical survey of the blues from the turn of the 20th century until World War II. This event covers acoustic blues music from Blind ...

Iranian state media say country’s supreme leader is dead

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media reported early Sunday. Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency reported the 86-year-old's death, without elaborating on a cause. U.S. President Donald Trump ...

I’ve got addiction down to a tea

The advice to "Write drunk, edit sober" is often attributed (probably incorrectly) to the hard-drinking Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist. Here's my own riff on that advice. I could not have written five novels or 150 columns without swilling my beverage of choice between sentences. No, not bourbon, not Scotch, not absinthe. Just plain old tea. What gasoline is to an internal combustion engine under a car's hood, tea is to the writing engine inside my skull. It keeps me chugging along. I have a friend who wrote two terrific novels years ago. Then he had a baby ...

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council to meet on Tuesday

The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council will meet on Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center. The public is invited to attend. The meeting agenda includes regular council business; a presentation by Andrea Yoxsimer on the Joseph S. Fay shipwreck; and updates from NOAA staff on sanctuary programs, upcoming events, and research. Public comment will take place at approximately 7:50 p.m. People who cannot participate in the meeting may send comments to jean.prevo@noaa.gov. For council updates visit ...