Mccracken

Devil Rays: Quinton McCracken has 13 career homers, including seven in 67 games this season. In the first 274 games of his career, he had six.Blue Jays: Jose Canseco's RBI single extended his hitting streak to eight games.Angels: Tim Salmon has nine homers at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, tying him with Ken Griffey and Jose Canseco for the most by a Rangers opponent.Pub Date: 6/16/98

Ten chairs form a circle at the Barnes & Noble bookstore downtown. Here on a breezy November evening, two Baltimore mothers, Anne McCracken and Mary Semel, will give their first reading of the anthology they've just published: "A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies."Neither woman knows how tonight will go. McCracken is eerily unnervous. A glass of wine has soothed Semel's jitters.They know what it's like to lose a child. Their book is a compilation of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by authors who know what it's like, too.The circle fills with friends, family members and strangers.

Quote: "I thought about lying, sure. And I was worried I wouldn't remember how the lie goes. It's extremely frustrating. Obviously this affects other people in the clubhouse. A puppy's dog bite affects people's careers, some good, some bad."-- Yankees' David Cone after being scratched from tonight's start because of a dog bite to his finger and being replaced by Orlando Hernandez.It's a fact: The Twins have outscored opponents 120-61 in the first three innings this season.Who's hot: Tampa Bay center fielder Quinton McCracken got his ninth assist when he threw out Will Clark trying to score from second on a single in the third.

Baltimore cruiserweight Courtney Butler (18-2-1) has signed to fight unbeaten Don Diego Poeder (19-0) of Holland for the International Boxing Association Continental title on Nov. 13 at the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. The Top Rank, Inc., promotion will be televised by ESPN2.Unbeaten Gerald McCracken (28-0) of England, ranked No. 3 by the World Boxing Council, will meet George Heckley (17-3-2) of Boston in a 10-round bout on the Sept. 12 Pikesville Armory boxing card featuring former junior middleweight champion Simon Brown and Reuben Bell.

The University of Maryland Baltimore County conferred degrees on nearly 2,000 students in graduation exercises last night at the Baltimore Arena.The ceremony included traditional elements of a college graduation, such as an academic procession and a graduation speech delivered by a corporate executive who has collaborated with campus officials on a series of projects. But the event included a display of high-tech expertise by UMBC students.For the introduction of the speaker, Edward R. McCracken, the chairman and chief executive of Silicon Graphics Inc., university officials relied not on a longtime faculty member but on a video created by students at Mr. McCracken's computer laboratories.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The interview took place in the "Total Recall" conference room of Silicon Graphics Inc.'s headquarters, which shouldn't be confused with the conference rooms upstairs bearing the titles "Terminator II" or "Beauty and the Beast."For the moment, Edward McCracken, SGI president and chief executive, wasn't discussing those films, for which his super-fast 3-D graphics machines generated special effects and animation, turning "morphing" into a generally recognized term.

IBM teaches us to get closer to our customers. Then its customers change (from mainframes to PCs and workstations), and Big Blue is left holding the bag -- and 200,000 surplus employees. So much for close to the customer.Focusing on core competencies (skills, not products) is another hot management strategy. But in his new book, "Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation," MIT Professor Jim Utterback offers irrefutable evidence that most leading companies "follow their core technologies into obsolescence and obscurity."

For 14 years, Harford County teen-agers have competed in interscholastic diving, but this will be the last season.Some diving coaches hope to fight the decision to eliminate diving, but it appears to be too late."

Services for Charles H. McCracken, a senior engineer in the Communication Systems Division of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Providence Baptist Church, 882 Cecil Ave., Millersville.Mr. McCracken was 56 and lived in Crownsville. He died Thursday at Memorial Hospital in Cumberland after being injured Sunday in an automobile accident on U.S. 50 in Augusta, W.Va., while returning from a visit to his mother's home in Hamilton, Ohio.He moved to Maryland about 20 years ago from Annandale, Va., where he had been a consulting engineer.

COLLEGE PARK - Liberty's Amanda McCracken gets teased by her teammates because she doesn't show much emotion on the volleyball court. "I love volleyball, but I've never been real loud," said the senior. "I just want to go out and do well, and then do it again. Even McCracken, however, couldn't miss the significance of No. 10 Liberty's 25-17, 25-21, 21-15 victory over Rising Sun in the Class 2A state championship yesterday at the University of Maryland's Ritchie Coliseum. The Tigers (12-7)

Marianne Woessner is a North Carolina nurse and midwife who sees drug addicts with good jobs and from good families nearly every day. They occupy a hidden world that belies the stereotype of rail-thin junkies stumbling from one street corner to the next in search of a fix. Woessner was the mother of one such drug addict. She made the discovery Sunday night, when a Baltimore police officer called to tell her that her daughter, Carrie Elisabeth John, died that evening after apparently injecting herself with buprenorphine while trying to get high with her boyfriend, Clinton Blaine McCracken, in their rented rowhouse near downtown.

Clinton McCracken and Carrie John knew all about addictions and obsessive behavior. Both worked as postdoctoral research fellows at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and earlier this year published their conclusions from a study of "compulsions and habit formation." But their research might have taken too personal a turn. John, 29, a Wake Forest University graduate with a doctorate in physiology and pharmacology, died Sunday after apparently injecting herself with what McCracken called a "bad" batch of buprenorphine, a narcotic known on the street as "bupe" and commonly used to treat heroin addiction.

COLLEGE PARK - Liberty's Amanda McCracken gets teased by her teammates because she doesn't show much emotion on the volleyball court. "I love volleyball, but I've never been real loud," said the senior. "I just want to go out and do well, and then do it again. Even McCracken, however, couldn't miss the significance of No. 10 Liberty's 25-17, 25-21, 21-15 victory over Rising Sun in the Class 2A state championship yesterday at the University of Maryland's Ritchie Coliseum. The Tigers (12-7)

Ursula N. McCracken, former director of the Textile Museum in Washington who earlier had been director of development at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, died Monday of brain cancer at her West University Parkway home. She was 66. Ursula Naylor Eland was born in New York City, and raised in England and Stamford, Conn. She earned a bachelor's degree in the history of art from Wellesley College in 1963 and received two master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University. Mrs. McCracken received a master's degree in the history of ideas in 1984 and, two years later, a master's in administrative sciences, or nonprofit management.

Hundreds of people pour in and out of the Cuban restaurant and bar Little Havana every weekend. But I'll bet few ever stroll across the street for a nightcap at McCracken's on Key. I did a couple of weeks ago, and now, the nearly unmarked corner bar is my new favorite spot to watch football in South Baltimore. McCracken's occupies the first floor of a building right across Key Highway from Little Havana. There is no name on the outer brick walls just yet, though owner Jim Meehan plans to put one up in the near future.

On August 29, 2007,BEULAH L. THOMPSON "BO" (nee McCracken); beloved wife of the late Norman B. Thompson; devoted mother of Sharon Goodman and Norman B. Thompson, II; loving sister of Naoma Sansome and the late Doyle McCracken; loving grandmother of Jason, Norman and Evan Thompson. also survived by several great-grandsons and other relatives. Friends may call at the CONNELLY FUNERAL HOME OF DUNDALK, P.A., 7110 Sollers Point Rd., on Friday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral services will be held on Saturday,11:30 A.M. Interment Meadowridge Memorial Park.

On March 17, 2007, MARVIN "Jerry" R. J.; beloved husband of B. Marie (nee Myers) Slaysman; father and father-in-law of Kenneth S. and Nanette Slaysman, Deborah L. and John Mauck and Lori A. McCracken. Also survived by 15 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Predeceased by a son Richard C. Slaysman, son-in-law, Michael McCracken and brother, Clarence L. "Peck" Slaysman. Memorial Services 12 noon, Saturday, March 24, at Salem U.M. Church, Randallstown. No viewing and interment private.

On October 2, 2005 PAULINA RITA (nee Voeglein) MCCRACKEN; beloved wife of the late William Joseph Mc Cracken; devoted mother of Patrick M. Mc Cracken, Sharon R. Compton, Terrence L. Mc Cracken and the late Timothy D. Mc Cracken; loving grandmother of Timothy, Meaghan, Christopher, Patrick, Paul, Andrew, Erin and Michael; dear sister of Mary Curreri and the late Joseph Voeglein. Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale) on Tuesday and Wednesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Ursula's Church on Thursday 9 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

On March 22 2004 JEFFREY MCCRACKEN, 43, of Owings Mills, MD passed away at Johns Hopkins Coronary Arrest Unit after a long illness. He is survived by his parents Howard and Margaret Ganong and his siblings and family Leonard Mc Cracken, Lori Mc Cracken, Mike Mc Cracken, Lou Ann House, Keith Ganong, Danette Nadeau, Glen Ganong and Bill Becker. Services will be held Friday, March 26, from 6 to 8 at The Johnson Funeral Home, 8521 Loch Raven Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21286.

On March 22 2004 JEFFREY MCCRACKEN, 43, of Owings Mills, MD passed away at Johns Hopkins Coronary Arrest Unit after a long illness. He is survived by his parents Howard and Margaret Ganong and his siblings and family Leonard Mc Cracken, Lori Mc Cracken, Mike Mc Cracken, Lou Ann House, Keith Ganong, Danette Nadeau, Glen Ganong and Bill Becker. Services will be held Friday, March 25 from 6 to 8 at Funeral Alternatives, 8717 Green Pastures Drive, Towson, MD.