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Throwing from the field by the clock: * Start with the ball in your hand at 9 o' clock. * Drop the throwing hand to 6 o'clock. * Raise it up and back to 12 o'clock, your upper arm parallel to the ground and forearm pointing upward at 90 degrees. * Step and throw forward, releasing the ball at 3 o' clock. * Follow through, your hand moving at your target.

For more on the Orioles, go to Roch Kubatko's blog, Roch Around the Clock, at baltimoresun.com/roch

Good morning --Paul Tagliabue --Next year at this time, you won't be on the clock. Why not visit a museum?

Q: I paid $20 for a picnic basket that looks like a suitcase. Inside, on the lid, are leather straps that hold stainless-steel flatware, four plates, and salt and pepper shakers. There are spaces for cups, a tin container and a thermos.When was it made and did I pay too much?A: Your picnic basket was made in the mid-20th century. You got a bargain. Baskets similar to yours would probably sell in antiques shops for about $85 to $95.Q: Years ago I bought a clock at a garage sale for $5. It is in the shape of a coal-train engine with the clock in the center of the side of the engine.

For the time conscious - and challenged - commuter, the Bromo Seltzer Tower clock has been invaluable. Stark against the sky, it offered assurance that you would get to where you had to be in time. Or on time. Punctual, an old professor once said. And if you fell in with the latecomers, an impulse to step on it never followed derision or complaint. It may have been encouraged, the clock's big wooden hands so seriously set at keeping time. Whether driving east, west, north or south, the commuter only had to look up to know the time, the day moving slowly and steadily across the clock face.

Mount Hebron coach Larry Luthe planted a kiss on the side of Toni Sacke's face as a grinning Luthe walked off the River Hill football field yesterday. "Oh, you probably don't do that in Germany, do you," Luthe said about the kiss. In Germany, soccer players don't win crucial football games with field goals in the final 6.5 seconds, either. Sacke, a junior exchange student who never played football before this season, connected on a line-drive 30-yarder that barely cleared the crossbar to defeat River Hill, 23-20.

Every time I put out one of my mock drafts -- the latest came out on Wednesday -- readers tell me they think things would play out differently (chances are we'll both end up being wrong). Well, now you get a chance to play GM in my first-ever reader NFL mock draft. Here's how it works. Starting today, I'll post a daily poll where you can vote to decide what the team that's on the clock should do with its pick. To keep it simple, I'll give you five options for each pick. If you think I missed somebody, let me know in the comments section.

HAMPSTEAD - Sights and sounds from a bygone era greet visitors to Roy's Never Stop Clock Shop, housed in a brick building on Main Street that was in turn a bank and the Town Hall.Now the building's first floor, with its vaulted ceilings, wood floors, and 19th-century molding, provides a museum atmosphere for 500 timepieces, Victorian furniture, and Civil War relics.Upon entering Roy's, the music of time blends its myriad melodies into a pleasing harmony. The boom of a gong's deep bass contrasts with the chime's soprano voice.