Sanford

THE LIST of people that Joe Sanford is surprising is long for now, but growing shorter. Funny what the effect of throwing three no-hitters in a season can have on your anonymity. All of a sudden, people who didn't know the Southwestern senior existed are taking notice of Sanford, even if they don't exactly know who he is. Sanford's coach, Terry Leverette, says his pitcher is still able to walk the halls of Southwestern without anyone really connecting his face to his identity as a star pitcher.

On June 28, 2009, LOTTIE MAE SANFORD. On Sunday, friends may call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services (East), 4905 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 3 to 8 P.M. On Monday, Ms. Sanford will lie in state at Mt. Hebron Baptist Church, 2651 W. North Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A.M with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 433-7500.

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Southwestern's Joseph Sanford struck out 12 and pitched a no-hitter, throwing 62 pitches in a near-perfect 20-0 win against visiting Reginald Lewis in a Baltimore City baseball game yesterday. Sanford also contributed to his own cause by hitting a triple and driving in three runs. The Sabers were paced by Vernon Garrison, who went 4-for-4. Southwestern committed an error, spoiling Sanford's bid for a perfect game. No pitcher from the city has pitched a perfect game since Poly's Dustin Jones in 1995.

Washington -- ONCE AGAIN, the old argument heard in a Democratic Party fallen on lean times is surfacing: Can the voters be trusted to select a presidential nominee capable of winning and governing, or must the party's experienced officeholders save it from another follyDemocratic officeholders have been complaining ever since the party's 1972 reforms opened its presidential nomination proccess to more voters that the old pros, the reservoir of political wisdom...

Southwestern senior Joe Sanford pitched a five-inning perfect game yesterday as the Sabers (10-3) routed host Reginald Lewis, 24-0. It was Sanford's third no-hitter of the season, tying a state record set by Towson's Andre Gardner in 2000. Earlier in the season, Sanford (8-0) also pitched no-hit ball in a game that ended after three innings because the opponent forfeited. Yesterday, Sanford struck out 14 of the 15 batters he faced, getting a pop-up for the other out. It was the first perfect game thrown by a city pitcher since Dustin Jones accomplished the feat for Poly in 1995.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- South Dakota's economic renaissance has gone largely unnoticed, eclipsed by things like the state's strong opposition to same-sex marriage, its raucous debates over abortion and the stroke suffered by one of its senators, Tim Johnson, that could tip control of the Senate back to the Republicans. But in the 1990s, its long-stagnant population began to grow, especially here and in Rapid City, and its economy began to diversify. Its lack of personal and corporate income taxes made it attractive to companies and their employees, and while other states tightened their usury laws, South Dakota relaxed them, attracting numerous credit card companies.

THE WORLD is likely to take greater notice of Towson's Goucher College now that Sanford J. Ungar is formally its 10th president, as he has been in fact since July. That would seem to have been the point. Mr. Ungar is a lifelong journalist, broadcaster, op-ed writer and no shrinking violet, who believes in the role of the public intellectual. He is likely to be heard from on matters far beyond Goucher fund-raising, but on that, too. Opened in 1888 as the Woman's College of Baltimore by the Methodist Conference after the Johns Hopkins University refused to admit women as undergraduates, Goucher (renamed for its founding president and his wife)