SPORTS
Sports Digest | September 8, 2011
Laurel Park Start of fall meeting to mark centennial Live racing returns to Laurel Park on Friday afternoon for the fall meeting with a nine-race card. Opening day includes $2 food and drink specials and a barbecue on the apron. First post is 1:10 p.m. The meet will celebrate 100 years of live racing at Laurel Park. The first promotion for the centennial will happen Saturday, when the first 3,000 fans receive a complimentary mug featuring historic Laurel Park headlines.
SPORTS
December 29, 2010
Signs of a winner Dan Pompei Chicago Tribune It's way too early to say Tim Tebow will have the kind of success in the pros that he had in college. But there are encouraging signs that would suggest he won't be an NFL bust. Tebow's athleticism translates to the NFL. In an evolving game, a creative coach can find a way to take advantage of Tebow's unusual skill set. And Tebow looks like he should be able to adapt to the NFL passing game, given what he did Sunday against the Texans.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | September 10, 2010
William F. Fritz, a World War II veteran who owned and operated a well-known Pikesville hair salon for more than 50 years, died Wednesday of kidney failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 85. Born and raised in Baltimore, Mr. Fritz was a 1943 graduate of Patterson High School. During World War II, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in the South Pacific, attaining the rank of corporal. After the war, he returned to Baltimore, where he planned to become a barber until two uncles persuaded him to become a hairstylist instead.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | June 4, 2009
Susan B. Fritz, a longtime volunteer and sportswoman, died at her Ruxton home Sunday after an eight-month battle with lymphoma. She was 82. She was born Susan Baker in Baltimore and lived in Guilford until she was 12, when, because of her family's interest in fox hunting, they moved to Manor Hill Farm on My Lady's Manor in Monkton. Mrs. Fritz attended the Bryn Mawr School and graduated in 1945 from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. She made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillon and graduated in 1949 from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
NEWS
April 12, 2009
On April 6, 2009, GEORGE LOUIS FRITZ, beloved husband of the late Cecelia Fritz (nee Gebhart); loving father of George F. and his wife Teresa Fritz, and Albert L. and his wife Karen Fritz; devoted grandfather of Gregory, Elizabeth, Paul, David, Derek and Daniel. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 10 AM in St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church, 8499 Virginia Avenue, Riviera Beach, MD 21122. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the St. Jane Frances School (at the above address)
NEWS
December 18, 2008
On December 16, 2008, ANNA M. FRITZ (nee DiMassimo); beloved wife of William F. Fritz; loving mother of William L. Fritz and his wife Debbie, Laurie Bova and her husband Steve and David J. Fritz and his wife Stacy; dear sister of Margie Kelly and her husband Tom; loving grandmother of Derek, Keith, David, Brendan and Aidan Fritz, Kelly Rafferty and Frank Bova; dear aunt of Michelle Sullivan and her husband Roger, Kathy Schwartz and her husband Jim and...