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Schilling to sell bloody sock worn in Red Sox 2004 World Series

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 01:32 PM PST

Former MLB player Curt Schilling poses for Reuters at E3 convention in Los AngelesCAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, owner of a bankrupt video game company, plans to auction off a blood-stained sock he wore in the historic 2004 World Series championship. The sock, worn by Schilling in Game Two of the first World Series won by the Red Sox in 86 years, is expected to fetch more than $100,000 when it hits the auction block next month, Chris Ivy, director of sports at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, said on Thursday. ...

"Dear Abby" advice columnist Pauline Phillips dead at 94

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:29 AM PST

DEAR ABBY RECEIVES STAR ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME.(Reuters) - Pauline Phillips, the "Dear Abby" newspaper columnist who dished out advice to millions of confused, troubled and lovesick readers in America and around the world, has died at the age of 94, her daughter said on Thursday. Phillips, whose twin sister Esther wrote the rival "Ask Ann Landers" column, died in Minneapolis on Wednesday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. "I have lost my mother, my mentor and my best friend," daughter Jeanne Phillips said in a statement released by the syndicator of the "Dear Abby" column, Universal Uclick. ...

"Diff'rent Strokes" star Conrad Bain dies at 89

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:35 PM PST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Conrad Bain, best known for his role on the 1970s and '80s television comedy "Diff'rent Strokes" as a wealthy, white New Yorker who adopts two young black boys from Harlem, has died at age 89, his daughter said on Wednesday. Bain, who starred opposite the young Gary Coleman on the NBC sitcom as his adoptive father, Philip Drummond, died of natural causes at a comfort-care facility in Livermore, California, east of San Francisco, on Monday. He was three weeks shy of his 90th birthday, according to his daughter, Jennifer. ...

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