Wakefield

On June 27, 2003, RAYMOND C. WAKEFIELD; beloved husband of Evelyn (nee Giorgilli); devoted father of Donna Wise, Deborah Weichert, and Carl and Patrick Wakefield; loving grandfather of Olivia, Chris, and Will; dear brother of Walter Wakefield and Marlene Fuchs. Funeral services at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue, on Monday, 9:30 A.M. Visiting hours Sunday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the VNA Hospice of Maryland, 7008 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244.

GRACE T. Miller The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 2 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. at Broadmead, 13801 York Road, Cockeysville, MD. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the South County Hospital, Wakefield RI or Meals on Wheels.

On March 26, 2003, DORIS C. WAKEFIELD (nee Cox), beloved wife of the late John Wakefield; devoted mother of Donald Wakefield and his wife Darlene; sister to Thelma Krause and Ruth Atkinson. Also survived by grandchildren John and Jennifer Wakefield. Funeral services at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue, on Saturday at 10:30 A.M. Interment Oak Lawn Cemetery. Visiting hours on Friday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions to Essex United Methodist Church, 528 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21221

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BOSTON -- Tim Wakefield's story is a mystery in spikes. Not a whodunit, but a howdunit.How did Wakefield, a 29-year-old knuckleballer, go from being one of baseball's worst pitchers in 1994 to one of its best in 1995? How did he go, in less than four months, from being released in Pittsburgh to being the ace in Boston and the favorite to win the American League's Cy Young Award?How could Wakefield, who takes a 13-1 record into his start today against the Orioles at Fenway Park, travel directly from the lowest low -- he was 5-15 in Triple-A last year -- to the highest high without stopping for even a little mediocrity in between?

Wakefield Valley's Dave Bittner has started a collection of golf titles.After winning the inaugural Carroll County Championship over his home course last year, Bittner opened the new season with a triumph in the club's two-man team event while paired with Mike Myers.Now he has added Wakefield's stroke-play crown, winning the major 36-hole test with a 152 score.Bittner had to overcome the pressure of Todd Eckenrode, the most titled golfer in Wakefield's history.Mackie Pajak jumped to the first-round lead of the stroke-play event, but faded in the second half.

ATLANTA -- Mother, teach your son to throw the knuckleball and maybe he will become an instant baseball hero like Tim Wakefield of the Pittsburgh Pirates.Knuckleballers are a rare breed, soft-tossers who throw without much exertion. They often pitch in the big leagues into their mid-40s, sometimes beyond. Hoyt Wilhelm, a Hall of Fame knuckleball artist of the previous generation, appeared in more than 1,000 games. He retired at the age of 49. His legs gave out, not his arm.Baseball's latest -- and remarkably successful -- knuckleballer is Wakefield, a rookie right-hander out of Melbourne, Fla. Wakefield, 26, goes against Tom Glavine, Atlanta's 20-game winner, tonight in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series.

Blast rookie P.J. Wakefield has been added to the Major Indoor Soccer League's Eastern Conference All-Star team. The Baltimore native, a replacement for injured Philadelphia KiXX midifelder Joel Shanker, will join teammates Sean Bowers and Denison Cabral in representing the Blast in Sunday's All-Star Game in Milwaukee. Wakefield is second on the team in scoring with 55 points, just three points behind Cabral. Also, Blast forward Tarik Walker was named the league's Offensive Player of the Week after scoring 12 points in three wins - including a season-high six points in a 15-10 victory over the Harrisburg Heat on Saturday.

Drinking water contains more lead than federal safety standards allow in two of 22 houses in the Wakefield Valley area tested by Westminster city government this year.Meanwhile, Westminster's major water supply system, which is separate from the system that serves Wakefield, passed a lead test with results well within the safety standard, said Paula Martin, city water plant superintendent.After the two houses in the Wakefield area turned up lead above acceptable levels, Westminster had the two wells that supply water to Wakefield customers tested.

A volunteer brigade will join Westminster work crews the next several Saturdays to clear brush and trees for the city's new Wakefield Valley Community Trail.The hiking and biking trail is planned as an 8-foot-wide blacktop path that will wind for about three miles through meadows, woods, marshland and streams at a new park on New Windsor Road.The park will be dedicated to Terence Burk, an avid runner who was killed by a car while jogging in 1995. The park has been planned since 1994, and the 24-acre property was deeded to the city in 1987 by the developer of Avondale Run.Burk's family and friends decided that an appropriate memorial would be fund raising for the trail.

MONTERREY, Mexico - After a fourth quarter in which the Blast and Monterrey La RaZa traded goals and the lead, rookie Pat Healey finally gave the Blast an 18-16 overtime victory last night at Monterrey Arena. Healey scored the game-winner for the first-place Blast at the 4:25 mark of overtime. The Blast's PJ Wakefield (UMBC) sent the game into an extra period when he scored with 24 seconds left in regulation. The Blast had a 10-4 lead at halftime, but La RaZa scored three times in the third period to tie it at 10. The teams traded goals in the final quarter, with Monterrey taking a 16-14 lead in the eighth minute before Wakefield tied the game.

BOSTON - Kevin Millar offers simple advice for anyone trying to hit a knuckleball: Don't take it too seriously. Millar has the numbers to back himself up. After last night's game, Millar led all Orioles hitters with a .444 career average against Boston Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield, collecting 12 hits in 27 at-bats. He had three doubles, three homers and eight RBIs. Meanwhile, Aubrey Huff was hitting .173 (9-for-52), Brian Roberts .182 (8-for-44), Nick Markakis .188 (3-for-16) and Jay Payton .083 (1-for-12)

Home is where the wins have come for the Blast this season, and last night was no different. For the seventh time in nine games at 1st Mariner Arena, the Blast prevailed, turning back its old rival, the Milwaukee Wave, 12-7, for its third straight victory to remain in fifth place in the Major Indoor Soccer League. Now 9-7 after falling below .500 two weeks ago, the Blast was boosted by defender P.J. Wakefield's seven-point night. A solid defensive effort against the MISL's leading scorer, Greg Howes, was another key factor.

Entering his sixth season as a member of the Baltimore Blast, which opened its 2007-2008 season Friday, P.J. Wakefield has already won three Major Indoor Soccer League Championships with his teammates. A graduate of Calvert Hall and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Wakefield joined the Blast for the 2002-03 season and was named MISL Rookie of the Year. Wakefield and his wife, Jessica, live in Middle River with their 1-year-old son, Mason. 1. A swing set in the backyard for my son "Playing together and watching him grow up has been the best part of my life."

A man who worked for a company installing computer cables at Johns Hopkins Hospital was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison for stealing valuable computer network cards that, when disconnected, shut down monitoring equipment in a cancer ward, Baltimore prosecutors said. Authorities said in court papers that the man's actions on two days last year jeopardized "the safety of all the patients." However, a hospital spokesman, John Lazarou, said that "patient safety was not jeopardized.

With Giuliano Celenza back in the rotation after an eight-week absence, the Blast turned in one of its most efficient efforts of the season last night at 1st Mariner Arena. Unlike the first meeting with the Chicago Storm here when he scored three goals within five minutes, Celenza ceded the offensive honors to defender P.J. Wakefield, but it meant a lot just to have him on the field in a workmanlike 10-4 victory over Chicago before 4,539 fans. Wakefield had two goals and an assist, and veteran Lee Tschantret scored the final Blast goal against a six-attacker formation to pull to within one point of 1,000 for his career.

Wakefield, by Andrei Codrescu. Algonquin Books. 288 pages. $24.95. You talk about alienated. Wakefield, the protagonist of Andrei Codrescu's weird new comic novel, makes Holden Caulfield look like a towel-snapping frat boy. He makes Yossarian look as though he runs the weekend ham supper at church. Wakefield dusts off a timeless (some would say shopworn) theme: Man makes a pact with the devil. And from there it veers, with mixed results, into an on-the-road adventure -- forget Kerouac; think Woody Allen, without his medication, jumping onto one 757 after another -- and sociological exploration of some of the maddening aspects of late 20th-century American life.

Cushman & Wakefield, an international real estate brokerage in New York, will expand to Baltimore next week with a lineup of local veteran brokers from the former Trammell Crow Co. Rival CB Richard Ellis Group Inc, the world's largest commercial real estate services company, acquired Trammell Crow in December for about $1.79 billion. Earlier this month, Cushman & Wakefield ended its alliance with MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services LLC of Lutherville to expand on its own after MacKenzie turned down offers to be acquired.

If there was one burning issue surrounding the Blast this season, it was how Danny Kelly, the coach, was going to replace Danny Kelly, the player. As a playing coach during the stretch run to the 2005-06 Major Indoor Soccer League title, Kelly remained the glue of the team's defense, the orchestrator on the field. He was a vocal leader who had a knack for directing people into the right places. Two games into the new season, the answer is so far, so good. No one has taken over Kelly's role individually, but a committee of old hands is sharing the responsibilities.