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Bill Virdon was one of the major leagues' smoothest-fielding center fielders of the 1950s and early '60s. He managed four teams, winning division championships with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros and bringing a surprising New York Yankees team to the brink of one. But many remember him most for hitting a seemingly routine ground ball that was anything but: It sent the Pirates on their way to a dramatic Game 7 victory over the Yankees in the 1960 World Series.

Jazz trumpeter Roy Tate, Jr., died on July 3d of this year, he was 84. He recorded his first album with the Queen City Jazz Band in 1962 and recorded a further fifteen albums. Most of them were with Terry Waldo’s...

In the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the wild 1960 World Series, Bill Mazeroski of the underdog Pittsburgh Pirates toppled the mighty New York Yankees.

It’s deja vu all over again for more than a dozen families in the rural community of Fairbanks in northeast Gainesville who are trapped after heavy rains.  As was the case in 2017 after Hurricane Irma, their makeshift bridge on Northeast 100th Avenue that allows them to drive over Forest Creek into town for groceries and other essentials was washed out by Elsa’s rains earlier this week. And once again, county officials say because it’s private property, they can’t invest tax money in roads or bridges unless the residents chip in through a special assessment, which would be a new ta...

Hal Smith: Jeff, when you think about the traditional jazz “warhorses”—like “At The Jazz Band Ball,” “That’s A Plenty” or “Fidgety Feet”—traditional jazz musicians usually don’t make too many variations on the order...