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Family of man who died in police custody demand answers

The family of a 44-year-old man who died after a struggle with police during a traffic stop Thursday in Northeast Baltimore called the incident a "microcosm of greater issues within Baltimore City."

Meanwhile, another witness came forward saying officers used excessive force while striking the man.

Police identified the man Friday as Tyrone Antonio West but have released few details from their investigation other than to say West went into "medical distress" while resisting an arrest in the 1400 block of Kitmore Road. Witnesses have claimed that West was beaten, though a cause of death has not been released.

More than 20 members of West's family called reporters to their Northwest Baltimore home Saturday, saying they have hired an attorney and are trying to reconstruct what happened that night and asked people to come forward.

Neil Norris, West's cousin, said that whatever happened was "not an isolated incident."

"There's a stark disconnect between the community servants and the communities in which they're tasked to serve," said Norris, 37, reading from a statement on his cellphone. "Our communities depend on the mantra, 'To protect and to serve,' but we're unprotected and grossly underserved."

The family declined to answer questions.

On Saturday, police identified eight officers under investigation in connection with the incident, all who police said remain on full duty: Officer Jorge Bernardez-Ruiz, a two-year veteran; Officer Nicholas Chapman, a three-year veteran; Officer Matthew Cioffi, a two-year veteran; Officer Alex Hashagen, a two-year veteran; Officer Eric Hinton, a nine-year veteran; Officer Danielle Lewis, who joined the agency last fall; Officer Derrick Beasley, a four-year veteran; and Officer Latreese Lee, a five-year veteran. A Morgan State University officer is also being investigated.

Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez, who oversees the Police Department's professional standards and accountability bureau, declined to comment through a spokesman.

Two witnesses said Thursday night that they saw West beaten and sprayed with pepper spray and believed he was not fighting with officers. Shawanda Wilson, who lives nearby, said it was "really bad, to the point where I got upset."

On Saturday, Duane Bond Jr., a rising sophomore at University of Baltimore who is a class representative, contacted The Sun and said West had tried to run but was thrown into a parked car and beaten by the officers. Bond, who said he does not know West or his family, was at a relative's house and had gone outside when he heard women screaming.

Bond said he "vividly remembers" one of the officers "cocking his arm all the way back, and laying a haymaker on the man."

"At this point, he was already definitely down, and I didn't see any movement," Bond said. "If the man was fighting them, they have a right to fight back, but they're not above the law. You can't go beyond what's necessary."

West was on parole, having been released from prison in the summer of 2012 after serving time on convictions on separate drug distribution and assault cases in 2000. West had been charged with attempted first-degree murder in the assault case, and prosecutors dropped a second attempted-murder and handgun case in 1999. He was also sentenced to two years for resisting arrest.

Though police have publicly provided little information, City Councilman Bill Henry said Friday that officials told him officers had pulled over West and a female companion. When they had him get out of the car and sit on the curb, they noticed a bulge in West's sock and suspected drugs. West then punched an officer and ran, Henry said he was told.

"It was essentially a wide-ranging fight across several yards," Henry said he was told by police. Henry said police told him that the officers tried to bring the man under control, "and in the course of struggling, he just collapsed."

West's death is the second in Baltimore police custody since last fall, when Anthony Anderson, 46, died after being thrown to the ground during a drug arrest. While the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, prosecutors said police had followed procedures.

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Fall sports: Dulaney beats Towson, 2-0, in field hockey

Suzy Banister and Maddie Manzoni scored Friday as the Dulaney field hockey team defeated Baltimore County rival Towson, 2-0, and evened its season record.

Banister opened the scoring for the Lions (3-3) when she set up at the post in the first half and put the ball past Towson's goalie. Manzoni's goal came early in the second half, as Dulaney worked hard to keep the pressure on Towson's defense.

"I was inspired to score," Banister said. "I have an interview Saturday with the McDaniel College coach about field hockey there next year and I knew if I didn't score and we didn't win there would be a captain's practice tomorrow and I wouldn't be able to go.

"It felt good to win. Towson is pretty close to us and it's a rivalry. It's competitive. But we know a lot of their girls and at the end, we're just happy to see people we know — at least I am."

The Generals (3-3) were handicapped by the loss of midfielder-defender Maggie Coccagna. The senior recently returned from a surgery and came into the game hampered by a groin pull. She went to the sideline in the second half when she aggravated it.

"I think I hyperextended it," Coccagna said. "Hopefully, I'm going to be good to go by the time we play Hereford" on Oct. 10.

No. 15 River Hill 7, Long Reach 0: Kat Varga had a hat trick to power the visiting Hawks past the Lightning.

Boys soccer

No. 3 Archbishop Curley 2, St.Paul's 0: Cameron Wilson scored two goals, as the Friars (4-1) beat the visiting Crusaders in league play.

No. 5 Marriotts Ridge 4, Atholton 0: Connor Delaney scored twice to power the visiting Mustangs (4-0).

No. 12 Perry Hall 3, Bel Air 0: Nicky Jones scored from 25 yards out in the 53rd minute to start the scoring for the visiting Gators (4-1).

Towson 2, No. 15 Dulaney 1 OT: Joshua Pugatch scored the winning goal with five minutes left in overtime as the Generals (3-3) upset the Lions in the Baltimore County League. Kelton Lynch had a goal and an assist in the win.

DeMatha 1, Archbishop Spalding 0: Nathan Ewing made six saves in a loss to the visiting Stags, the top-ranked team in the Washington metropolitan area.

Girls soccer

No. 2 Archbishop Spalding 1, No. 7 Notre Dame Prep 1, 2OT: The visiting Blazers (3-0-1) took a first-half lead, but the Cavaliers (3-0-2) tied the game in the second half.

Julia Friedland gave NDP a 1-0 lead at the 19-minute mark. Graceland Bryant evened the score in the 57th minute.

No. 15 Hereford 2, Loch Raven 0: Abby Noble had a goal and an assist for the visiting Bulls (3-1).

Girls volleyball

No. 14 Archbishop Spalding d. No. 15 St. Paul's, 3-1: Kristen Sebba had 25 kills, 22 digs and 20 aces as the Cavaliers beat the Gators, 3-1. Alyssa Berke added 22 assists and 16 aces.

Spalding won, 21-25, 25-21, 25-9, 25-22.

Sun staff reports contributed to this article.

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Tyser Tower suites a key contributor to Maryland's financial troubles

In September 2009, Maryland held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Tyser Tower, a $50.8 million football stadium modernization project that included 63 luxury suites with bars and flat-screen TVs.

It was telling that a university official told the audience of dignitaries and boosters that suites "are still available if you want to call me afterwards."

More than two years later, 20 luxury suites and nearly 200 mezzanine seats remain unsold, and the financially disappointing Byrd Stadium tower project looms as an important factor in the severe budget crunch that caused a university commission to recommend the elimination of multiple athletic teams.

Analysts say the sour economy and poor football-team performance in two of the past three seasons have contributed to the poor sales. But — long before the project was built — school officials received a report from a consulting team raising a number of potential red flags about suite sales, according to documents obtained under a public-records request.

The consultants surveyed area corporations and other potential suite buyers and found "a very low level of interest," according to a 2004 market assessment prepared for the university by Turnkey Sports of Columbia and Shugoll Research and Team Services of Bethesda.

"The survey results show a marked weakness on the suite side," the study said.

The consultants said in the report that the tower's new suites and mezzanine seats could still be successful. But it said Maryland's situation was different than many other large state universities because the school faced stiff competition for suite sales from other nearby venues.

"With new premium seating products at FedEx Field, MCI (now Verizon) Center, M&T Bank Stadium, Camden Yards and the Comcast Center, the university will be entering a market that is already very heavily penetrated and saturated by the competition," the report said.

The Tyser project went forward under former athletic director Debbie Yow, who left in 2010 for the same position at North Carolina State.

Reached by e-mail, Yow said it would not be appropriate for her to comment since she is no longer at Maryland.

Athletic director Kevin Anderson, who replaced Yow 13 months ago, said he did not want to comment while the university commission was doing its work.

Athletic budgets depend heavily on ticket sales, merchandise and concessions. Maryland has said it has enough to pay the $2.3 million debt service on the tower project but that there is little leftover revenue.

Maryland's accumulating athletic department's deficit is anticipated to rise to about $8.7 million by the end of the 2013 fiscal year without action by the school.

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A masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a

A masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.
An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.
All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat—to both sides at once.
In Lee Child’s white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.
Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Reacher series
“Child is a superb craftsman of suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly
“The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Implausible, irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Like his hero Jack Reacher, Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps.”—Associated Press
“Lee Child [is] the current poster-boy of American crime fiction.”—Los Angeles Times
“Indisputably the best escape artist in this escapist genre.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
“Jack Reacher is much more like the heir to the Op and Marlowe than Spenser ever was.”—Esquire

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Publishers Weekly - Audio
In Child’s latest Reacher novel, his ex-army hero is hitchhiking to Virginia, battered but unbowed, when he’s picked up by a car carrying three men and a woman. Much of the book takes place in that car, with the always-suspicious Reacher doing a lot of sleuthing into the backgrounds of his mysterious fellow passengers. His suspicions are, of course, well founded. The four are connected to at least one murder. Before too long, Reacher has switched vehicles, now driving with a beautiful FBI agent and following his former companions into the heart of a seemingly inscrutable conspiracy. Some listeners may find the road trip a little meandering and the arbitrary death of a likeable character off-putting, but none should have any complaints about narrator Dick Hill’s vigorous, sardonic performance in this audio edition. His reading is perfectly tuned to Child’s hardboiled prose, and the narrator maintains an energy level that’s high enough to carry the listener past some of the book’s slower passages. Of special note is Hill’s ability to pick just the right word to linger on, nicely capturing Reacher’s attitude, be it one of distrust, sarcasm, anger, or, in rare instances, warmth. A Delacorte hardcover. (Sept.)
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Bestseller Child’s surprise-filled 17th Jack Reacher novel (after 2011’s The Affair) takes the ex-military policeman on a wild road ride that builds to a terrific slam-bang climax. While hitchhiking one winter night in Nebraska with a broken nose that makes him look more than usually disreputable, Reacher is picked up by two men and a woman wearing identical cheap blue shirts. The fun begins when clues suggest that the men in the car are responsible for the brutal murder of another man at an abandoned pump station. The role of the woman in the car remains unclear. Sheriff Victor Goodman is quick to call the FBI, which arrives in the person of Julia Sorenson, only the first of many agencies and agents heard from. While the erratic trip through America’s heartland doesn’t always follow a logical path, Reacher displays his acuity, patience, endurance, and military skills in the exhilarating fashion series fans have come to expect. Agent: Darley Anderson, Darley Anderson Literary. (Sept.)
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“The indomitable Reacher burns up the pages.”—USA Today
“Furious action . . . [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling. . . . [A] feverishly thrilling series.”—The Miami Herald
“Smart, breathless . . . [with] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series.”—The New York Times
“Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists.”—Newsweek
Library Journal
In Child's 17th Jack Reacher thriller, which picks up the action from Worth Dying For (after a detour in the prequel The Affair) our loner hero is hitchhiking east to Virginia. Unsurprisingly for series readers, Jack's ride turns out to be not just a ride, but a car the state police, the FBI and the CIA are seeking, with occupants who are involved in a cold-blooded killing. To survive, Jack must use his wits more than ever. His statistical knowledge, analytical thinking, and insight into human behavior help him dig deep into a multilayered puzzle well before the need for an all-out physical confrontation builds to a heart-racing climax. VERDICT Fans will devour this volume quickly and long for the next Reacher novel. Readers who enjoy character-driven thrillers such as Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne books will be intrigued by this series. [See Prepub Alert, 3/12/12; Jack Reacher, the film adaptation of Child's first novel, One Shot, starring Tom Cruise, will be released Dec. 21, 2012—Ed.]—Susan Carr, Edwardsville P.L., IL
Kirkus Reviews
Will Jack Reacher ever make it to that woman in Virginia he was trying to reach in Worth Dying For (2010)? Not if all hell continues to break loose in Nebraska. Shortly after an eyewitness sees three men enter a small concrete bunker outside an anonymous town and only two of them emerge, Reacher, "just a guy, hitching rides," is picked up by a trio of corporate-sales types: Alan King, Don McQueen and Karen Delfuenso. In a tour de force that runs well over a hundred pages, Child cuts back and forth between the clues county sheriff Victor Goodman and FBI agent Julia Sorenson gather concerning the unidentified man in the green coat who was stabbed to death inside that bunker and the inferences Reacher is making about his traveling companions. For one thing, it's clear that King and McQueen know each other better than either of them knows Delfuenso; for another, a good deal of what they casually tell him about themselves isn't true. Just when you've settled down expecting Child to keep up this rhythm indefinitely, he switches gears in an Iowa motel, and Reacher's left out of danger but on his own--at least until Sorenson arrives to arrest him and the two of them form a quicksilver partnership whose terms seem to change every time Sorenson gets another phone call from the cops or the Feds. After working every change imaginable on their relationship, Child switches gears again and sends them a bang-bang assault on a hush-hush installation that shows how far into America's heartland its enemies have penetrated. In this latest attempt to show Reacher enjoying every possible variety of conflict with his nation's government short of outright secession, Child (The Affair, 2011, etc.) has produced two-thirds of a masterpiece.

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Chapter 1

The eyewitness said he didn’t actually see it happen. But how else could it have gone down? Not long after midnight a man in a green winter coat had gone into a small concrete bunker through its only door. Two men in black suits had followed him in. There had been a short pause. The two men in the black suits had come out again.

The man in the green winter coat had not come out again.

The two men in the black suits had walked thirty brisk feet and climbed into a bright red car. Fire-engine red, the eyewitness called it. Vivid red. Fairly new. A regular four-door sedan, the eyewitness thought. Or maybe a five-door. Or a three-door. But definitely not a two-door coupe. A Toyota, the eyewitness thought. Or maybe a Honda. Or a Hyundai. Maybe a Kia.

But whichever, the two men in the black suits had driven away in it.

There was still no sign of the man in the green winter coat.

Then blood had pooled out from under the concrete bunker’s door.

The eyewitness had called 911.

The county sheriff had shown up and gotten the story. He was good at hustling folk along while looking patient. It was one of his many talents. Eventually the eyewitness had finished up. Then the county sheriff had thought for a long moment. He was in a part of the nation where in every direction there were hundreds of square miles of emptiness just over the dark horizon. Where roads were long lonely ribbons.

He was in roadblock country.

So he had called the highway patrol, and then he had ordered up the helicopter from the state capital. He had put out an urgent APB on a bright red import carrying two men in black suits.

Jack Reacher rode for ninety miles and ninety minutes with a woman in a dirty gray van, and then he saw bright vapor lights up ahead at the highway cloverleaf, with big green signs pointing west and east. The woman slowed the van, and stopped, and Reacher got out and thanked her and waved her away. She used the first ramp, west toward Denver and Salt Lake City, and he walked under the bridge and set up on the eastbound ramp, one foot on the shoulder and one in the traffic lane, and he stuck out his thumb and smiled and tried to look friendly.

Which was not easy. Reacher was a big man, six feet five inches tall, heavily built, and that night as always he looked a little ragged and unkempt. Lonely drivers wanted pleasant and unthreatening company, and Reacher knew from long experience that visually he was no one’s first choice of companion. Too intimidating. And right then he was further handicapped by a freshly broken nose. He had patched the injury with a length of silver duct tape, which he knew must make him look even more grotesque. He knew the tape must be shining and glittering in the yellow light. But he felt the tape was helping him medically, so he decided to keep it in place for the first hour. If he didn’t get a ride inside sixty minutes, he would consider peeling it off.

He didn’t get a ride inside sixty minutes. Traffic was light. Nebraska, at night, in the wintertime. The cloverleaf he was at was the only significant interchange for miles around, but even so whole minutes passed with no action at all. Up on the bridge the through traffic was fairly steady, but few people seemed keen to join it. In the first hour only forty vehicles showed up to turn east. Cars, trucks, SUVs, different makes, different models, different colors. Thirty of them blew past without even slowing. Ten drivers checked him out and then looked away and accelerated onward.

Not unusual. Hitchhiking had been getting harder for years.

Time to shorten the odds.

He turned away and used a splintered thumbnail to pick at the edge of the duct tape on his face. He got half an inch of it loose and gripped that makeshift tab between the pad of his thumb and his forefinger. Two schools of thought. One went for the fast rip. The other advocated a slow peel. An illusory choice, Reacher thought. The pain was the same either way. So he split the difference and opted for a fast peel. No big deal on his cheek. A different story across his nose. Cuts reopened, the swelling lifted and moved, the fracture itself clicked and ground.

No big deal on the other cheek.

He rolled the bloodied tape into a cylinder and stuck it in his pocket. He spat on his fingers and wiped his face. He heard a helicopter a thousand feet overhead and saw a high-power searchlight beam stabbing down through the darkness, resting here, resting there, moving on. He turned back and put one foot in the traffic lane again and stuck out his thumb. The helicopter hung around for a spell and then lost interest and hammered away west until its noise died back to nothing. Traffic heading cross-country on the bridge stayed sparse but steady. Feeder traffic heading north and south on the county road got thinner. But almost all of it turned one way or the other on the highway. Almost none of it continued straight. Reacher remained optimistic.

The night was cold, which helped his face. Numbness dulled the ache. A pick-up truck with Kansas plates came out of the south and turned east and slowed to a roll. The driver was a rangy black guy bundled into a thick coat. Maybe his heater wasn’t working. He eyeballed Reacher long and hard. He almost stopped. But he didn’t. He looked away and drove on by.

Reacher had money in his pocket. If he could get to Lincoln or Omaha he could get a bus. But he couldn’t get to Lincoln or Omaha. Not without a ride. He took to tucking his right hand under his left arm between cars, to stop it from freezing. He stamped his feet. His breath pooled around his head like a cloud. A highway patrol cruiser blew by with lights but no siren. Two cops inside. They didn’t even glance Reacher’s way. Their focus was up ahead. Some kind of an incident, maybe.

Two more cars almost stopped. One out of the south, and one out of the north, minutes apart. They both slowed, stumbled, stuttered, eyeballed, and then picked up speed and drove on by. Getting closer, Reacher thought. It’s coming. Maybe the late hour was helping. People were more compassionate at midnight than midday. And night driving already felt a little out of the ordinary. Picking up a random stranger wasn’t such a big leap.

He hoped.

Another driver took a good long look, but kept on going.

And another.

Reacher spat on his palms and slicked his hair into place.

He kept the smile on his face.

He remained optimistic.

And then finally, after a total of ninety-three minutes on the ramp, a car stopped for him.

Chapter 2

The car stopped thirty feet upstream of him. It had a local plate, and was a reasonable size, and American, and dark in color. A Chevrolet, Reacher thought, probably dark blue, or gray, or black. It was hard to tell, in the vapor light. Dark metallics were always anonymous at night.

There were three people in the car. Two men in the front, and a woman in the back. The two men were twisted around in their seats, like there was a big three-way discussion going on. Like a democracy. Should we pick this guy up or not? Which suggested to Reacher that the three people didn’t know each other very well. Such decisions among good friends were usually instinctive. These three were business colleagues, maybe, a team of equals, thrown together for the duration, exaggeratedly respectful of each other’s positions, especially the outnumbered woman’s.

Reacher saw the woman nod, and he lip-read her yes, and the men turned back and faced front again, and the car rolled forward. It stopped again with the front passenger’s window alongside Reacher’s hip. The glass came down. Reacher bent at the waist and felt warmth on his face. This car’s heater was working just fine. That was for damn sure.

The guy in the front passenger seat asked, “Where are you headed tonight, sir?”

Reacher had been a cop in the army for thirteen years, and then for almost as long had lived on his wits, and he had survived both phases of his life by being appropriately cautious and by staying alert. All five senses, all the time. Deciding whether or not to take an offered ride depended mostly on smell. Could he smell beer? Weed? Bourbon? But right then he could smell nothing at all. His nose had just been broken. His nasal passages were clogged with blood and swellings. Maybe his septum was permanently deviated. It felt entirely possible he would never smell anything ever again.

Touch was not an option in that situation, either. Nor was taste. He would learn nothing by groping around like a blind man, or by licking things. Which left sight and sound. He heard neutral tones from the front passenger, no marked regional accent, an educated cadence, an air of authority and executive experience. On all three of them he saw soft uncalloused hands, unmuscled frames, neat hair, no tans. Indoor people. Office folk. Not at the top of the tree, but a long way from the bottom. They each looked somewhere in their middle forties, perhaps halfway through their lives, but more than halfway through their careers. Like lieutenant colonels, maybe, in army terms. Solid achievers, but not superstars.

Each of them had on black pants and a blue denim shirt. Like uniforms. The shirts looked cheap and new, still creased from the wrapper. A team-building exercise, Reacher figured. Some kind of corporate bullshit. Fly a bunch of middle-ranking executives out from their regional offices, get them together in the wilderness, give them shirts, set them tasks. Maybe all the hoo-hah was making them feel a little bit adventurous, which was why they were picking him up. And maybe there would be candid mutual critiquing afterward, which was why they had labored through the big three-way democratic discussion. Teams needed teamwork, and teamwork needed consensus, and consensus needed to be unforced, and gender issues were always sensitive. In fact Reacher was a little surprised the woman wasn’t riding in front, or driving. Although driving might have been seen as a subservient role, for the only woman in a trio. Like fetching coffee.

A minefield.

“I’m heading east,” Reacher said.

“Into Iowa?” the front passenger asked.

“Through Iowa,” Reacher said. “All the way to Virginia.”

“Hop in,” the guy said. “We’ll get you some of the way there.”

The woman was sitting behind the front passenger, so Reacher tracked around the trunk and got in on the driver’s side. He settled on the rear bench and closed the door. The woman nodded to him a little shyly. A little cautiously, maybe. Perhaps because of his busted nose. Maybe the sight upset her.

The guy at the wheel checked his mirror and took off up the ramp.

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Lee Child is the author of nineteen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, ten of which have reached the #1 position. All have been optioned for major motion pictures; the first, Jack Reacher, was based on One Shot. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in almost a hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City.

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Anonymous More than 1 year ago
This is a good jack reacher book. I would recommend to all fans of jack reacher. But i have a question. Why is tom cruise playing jack in movies? Tom cruise is not 6' 5" tall nor does he weigh 250. He does not gave dirty blonde hair, hands the size of dinner plates or ice blue eyes and he certainly doesnt look rugged. I dont thinj i can go see this movie. It would ruin my picture of jack reacher. Watch movie trailer nice well groomed cruise as jack? Doesnt work for me
gloriafeit More than 1 year ago
The action in this newest in the Jack Reacher series begins with a body discovered in what is apparently an abandoned pumping station in rural Nebraska, an eyewitness able to give only scant details of the two men he saw with the victim, and who drove away in a bright red car afterwards. Very shortly thereafter, in addition to the local police, representatives of several governmental agencies designated by groups of letters such as CIA and FBI descend on the area. An alert is quickly put in place on all highways along the area interstates for the two men. Jack Reacher is variously described here as ex-military, specifically a former major in the Criminal Investigation Division of the Military Police, now unemployed and essentially homeless, self-described, most pertinently here, as “just a guy, hitching rides.” On the same mid-winter night, he has been standing at the side of an on-ramp for over an hour when he is given a ride in a car with two men and a woman inside, his ultimate destination being Virginia. That destination and his present appearance, the main feature of which is a badly broken nose, are the aftermath of events at the end of the last book in the series; an imposing figure overall, the broken nose is probably the main reason why it took so long for him to be offered a ride. Initially the points of view alternate between Reacher and Julia Sorenson, the FBI Special Agent first called to the crime scene, a very capable 25-year Bureau veteran out of the Omaha field office. Eventually their paths cross, and they work together to get to the bottom of what turns out to be anything but your average murder. The book is everything one can expect in a Lee Child/Jack Reacher novel, including terrific plotting and characterizations, and especially Reacher himself, who, when asked by one of the men in the car that picked him up, “You don’t like to be pushed around, do you, Mr. Reacher?” responds “I don’t know. I’ve never been pushed around. If it ever happens, you’ll be the first to find out whether I like it or not.” He demonstrates once again his vast knowledge of relatively arcane trivia, such as the population and area codes of almost any spot in the United States. It’s great to have him back, and the novel, one I swiftly devoured, is highly recommended.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Being a die hard Reacher fan, I was disappointed with this book. More of an intellectual Reacher book with minimal signature Reacher violence. Low impact until the last few chapters. Somewhat anti-climatic. My least favorite Reacher book to date. Not sure what's more baffling: this mundane release or Tom Cruise (5'7") as the big screen version of Jack Reacher (6'5").
Riverman1 More than 1 year ago
I have read all of the Reacher series books (big fan of the Big Man) and this is the most disappointing. The "plot twists" and "revelations" are cumbersome and convoluted rather than illuminating and detract from the narrative, especially in the book's final 100 pages Multiple sets of FBI agents working incognito from one another and at cross purposes, then add an undeveloped CIA component and characters who act illogically - I realize this is a fictional thriller, of course, , but folks should think and behave and react like "real" folks unless they are playing a psychotic role - this all adds up to a thrown-together recipe for a not quite palatable dish of a book. . it's almost as if Child lost his way and said, what the hey, Reacher can shoot twenty or so bad guys at the end, walk (or thumb) away and this will be wrapped up. After all of the anticipation awaiting another Reacher, I'm sorry to say that I'm sorry I bought this.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
I have been a reacher fan from day one ,l was very disappointed with this book. Hope next one gets back on tract..
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
seriously disappointing entry in what was, until now, a fantastic series...and full of digital errors, making it a chore to read.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Wow-Wow - Where to begin. Let me start by saying I have been a real fan of Lee Child and the character Jack Reacher. What has happened in this book in particular is that the book has over 360 pages and 299 pages of filler! I'm not sure Lee wrote this book or some high school teacher want a be. Lee has now done what other authors have done to their "hero character", and that is age them when there is no reason to. Vince Flynn with Mitch Rap, Harlan Coben with Myron and Win, Michael Connelly with Harry Bosch. There are dozens of authors who have turned their "super hero" into a old and uninteresting character for no good reason. Robert B. Parker is one author who allowed Spenser to never age through time. So I recommend skipping this book and have Lee Child find a new character as good or better than Reacher!
TrainreaderJR More than 1 year ago
Read every book and was very disappointed. Drove left, drove right, saw a farm, drove some more... First 300 pages were very short on action, the only death was the plot. The "Battle Scene" was confusing and I found it hard to envision (one dot, two dot, think I'll fire another shot). On par with the book where Reacher punched a midget for the action highlight. Lee Child phoned it in, save your money...
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Lee Child has gotten a bit lazy (e.g, the novella about the young Reacher, which has nothing to do with youth) and apparently greedy; I can't understand why he didnt buy back the movie rights instead of letting Tom Cruise' massive ego derail what should be the next Bond franchise. Compare Ray Stevenson to Tom Thumb Cruise, then hope that Nicole Kidman got the sequel options in the divorce. Its like casting PeeWee Herman as Batman .... but not nearly as funny.
Jack1822 More than 1 year ago
By far the poorest of the series. I struggled to get to the end. Wish I didn't waste my time and money on this dud. Hopefully as an avid lee child reader I an hoping this is not the beginning of the end!!!
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
I LOVE Jack Reacher and have read the entire series with the exception of this one. I have been so hopeful that the books would be made into a movie and was thrilled when I found out they were....UNTIL.....I found out that Tom Cruise would be playing Reacher. What a terrible choice! He does not fit the physical description at all and he does not fit the demeanor of Jack Reacher. I have always pictured a " Trace Adkins" like person as Reacher! (Yes, I know he is not an actor, but physically he fits Reacher to a tee!) As several have posted, I will most likely not go see the movies. Tom Cruise would completely ruin my perception of Reacher. Whoever chose him obviously has not paid attention to Reacher's description found in every single one of the books. Unfortunate!
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Bummer of a Reacher book. Looked forward to it but there wasn't much story here. And yes, we agree why is Tom Cruise playing Reacher? Hugh Jackman would have been perfect!!
Colin-Craib More than 1 year ago
I see a lot of reviewers complaining that A Wanted Man is slow, boring, and every other adjective possible that would fit under those headings. This is fiction, and any true Reacher fan will be able to appreciate most of this book for the great piece of fiction that it is. The truth is that the latest Reacher book is actually just a continuation of previous ones. Both in terms of plot and writing style. Lee Child has realized that Reacher is aging, and it just isn’t realistic for him to be engaged in constant slug fests with the enemies. Even though he may be a physical freak, aging takes its toll on everyone. The bigger they are the harder they’ll fall, etc. Instead we get to see a side of Reacher explored that has always been overshadowed by his incredible fighting skills; his intelligence. Reacher has always been described as extremely street smart if nothing else, but in A Wanted Man we see it goes beyond that and we get an insight into the way his mind works. More so then in any of the previous books. Look, I understand that some people read these books for the machismo that they inspire and the fact that Reacher is plain and simple a bad ass. But, Child has shown before that he likes to at least acknowledge that life realisms such as aging exists and to expect him to continue on as if Reacher was 29 30 is unrealistic. The fact that it has taken this long for the process to become noticeable is stretching it as is. If you want some pure action, no thinking required book then go pick up any other book that vaguely resembles the Reacher series. Odds are that all realism will be thrown out the door and you can have your non-aging hero and we’ll all be happy. Now, this is not to say that the book is perfect. It isn’t by a long shot, but for a transition book it was pretty well done. Lee Child took a shot in the dark by drastically altering the style of his books, and one should give him credit where credit is due for pulling it off as well as he did. : Warning, Spoilers Ahead: The start of the book is one of the strongest points I think. It does a nice job of giving the reader enough information to allow them to start speculating and creating their own theories while not giving everything away from the get-go. We know that someone important has been killed but we’re unsure as to why they’re important and why they ended up in the middle of nowhere. We know that the people picking up Reacher are almost certainly going to be the ones that did the killing. We do not know why they would pick someone up like Reacher though since most fleeing criminals don’t really want to take hitchhikers with them. From there it becomes a game of trying to catch the murderers and we begin to learn more about all the players involved. We see the gears in Reacher’s head working as we have seen to one level or another before, but more so now. The reader has always been given the sense of his intelligence but this time it is really spelled out by all the small things that he takes into account and calculates in the small spans of time he is given. Nothing of particular note happens until Reacher is almost shot in the motel room. This is the first bit of foreshadowing that indicates not all is as it seems. From there the reader should begin to suspect that this is deeper than it would first appear, though with all Reacher books this should be a given. Time passes, and the kidnapping of Delfuenso’s child gets the wheels turning for the meat of the plot to begin. Why would the child of a dead woman be kidnapped? It seems painfully obvious that Delfuenso is still alive, and I was honestly rather disappointed by this because it was such an obvious plot turn that I thought maybe Child was beginning to go easy on his readers and cater to those action obsessed fans. Fortunately I was proved very wrong. Finding out that Mcqueen was a double agent wasn’t a big surprise but did explain a lot. Finding out that Delfuenso was a sleeper agent though was very surprising and really made me appreciate how unexpected and well-designed Child’s good plot turns can be. From this part out it was a typical Reacher book. Reacher finds out who-dun-it, goes and kills them, gets lost quickly… Except it wasn’t. The end of this book was actually the weakest part in my opinion, and was vaguely disappointing. The plot itself wasn’t bad, in fact it was kind of novel. You don’t hear of terrorist banker bad guys all that often. And, while it sounds implausible at first guess, it worked all right with this book. If that had been the weakest part then I would probably be giving this book 5/5. Tragically though, that was not the weak part of this book. Instead, the weakest part of this book was the action itself. It honestly seemed like something any generic action writer could write. It wasn’t horrible, but Reacher has long been known for suspense that leaves you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next move. There are countless times that I can remember unconsciously holding my breath while reading. Just imagining myself in Reacher’s shoes because of the vivid imagery and waiting for the other shoe to drop. Nothing could have been further from the truth this time around. The death of Sorenson was abrupt and should have created a lot of empathy in the reader. The truth though was that it was rather easy to shrug off because there was not much attachment to her. Then Reacher just marched in and killed them easy as 1-2-3. It never really felt like he didn’t have a chance, even when his thoughts were indicating he didn’t think he had one. Then the end was just completely abrupt. It felt like Child didn’t know how to end this one, and it’s really too bad because he had been on fire up until the last 60 pages of it. Still, it was a solid book overall and a transition that I think was needed. My biggest problem though is that I’m still not sure how long Child can keep older Reacher going in a fun manner. I hope he will start writing more about his army days. This will allow him to put more action in it, though I certainly hope he will keep showing some insights like he does in this book. Overall I would say A Wanted Man is a solid 4/5.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
This is the first Reacher book that I thoroughly disliked I found the plot disjointed and implausible and Reacher omniscient - poor Agent Sorensen had to be enlighten by our hero on the most obvious fact. I was very disappointed with this book as I've read all the other book in the Reacher series as enjoyed them and was looking forward to his next adventure. Alas,it fizzled.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
This was another good Jack Reacher story, but not the same ass-kicking Jack Reacher I have come to expect. When it came time to take care of business though, Reacher didn't disappoint.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Too short and obvious marketing plot to squeak out more $$$. Also ridiculous casting of tom cruise as jack reacher. Lee child is not to be trusted for good story or movie anymore.
Quiversquest More than 1 year ago
This newest Jack Reacher novel was very entertaining. I liked how Child developed the other characters and drops clues here and there, although he had me guessing the plot right up to the end. Lots of good humor here, such as when people ask Reacher who he is and he answers, "Just a guy." Gave this novel to my neighbor to read and he loves it!
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Guess Lee Child is too busy making a movie with the WRONG actor playing Jack Reacher to write a really good book. I love this series but A Wanted Man left me luke warm. Will still buy Child's books but am hoping he'll give it more energy next time. Maybe my feelings are colored by the fact that Tom Cruise is playing Reacher. So much of that character is about his physicality and Cruise just does not cut it. Cruise is very athletic, but I was looking forward to seeing a hugely imposing figure on the screen as the personification of Reacher. So sad . . .
renegadeTS More than 1 year ago
what can one say CHILD is a master! can not wait for the next tale!!! the movie however needs a better fitting actor...someone that fits Reacher size!!! Nuff said
Larryb52 More than 1 year ago
lame what happen to Child?, this and his last book are lame, plot is all over the place, I finally sat it down, don't waste your time unless your into over blown plots...
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
I have also read every book in the Reacher series and this one is not in the top 5. The story line was a little slow and lacked the usual Reacher bravado. Also the mental imagery that Child tried to portray fell short. I could never get a good mental image of the bunkers layout. I still liked the book overall and can't wait for the next one to come out!
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Not one of his best
Spurs4life More than 1 year ago
I read everything Jack Reacher related including the shorts. This is another great addition to the series and I just can't get enough of Reacher and the way that he handles the situations that are put in front of him. I loved the way that A Wanted Man took off straight after the end of Worth Dying For. I love reading series books because I get invested in the characters and I can't wait for the next installment of Jack Reacher. Thank you Lee for another great book.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Not his best but readable
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Dead Girls Are Easy (Nicki Styx Series #1)

Dead Girls Are Easy (Nicki Styx Series #1)

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by Terri Garey

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There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.

Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly

There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.

Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light . . . and one-on-one anatomy lessons with Dr. Joe Bascombe, the dreamy surgeon who saved her life. All this catering to the deceased is a real drag, especially for a girl who'd rather be playing hanky-panky with her hunky new boyfriend . . . who's beginning to think she's totally nuts.

But things get even more complicated when a friend foolishly sells her soul to the devil, and Nicki's new gift lands her in some deep voodoo.

As it turns out for Nicki Styx, death was just the beginning.

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Chapter One

"She's coding. Give me another round of epi, stat."

"Keep bagging her, nurse. I'm not letting her go yet. Charge it to 360."

Had I left the TV on? I'd never cared much for medical dramas. Too much intensity, too much crying, too many doctors undergoing personal crises of faith—I'd rather believe they were professionals who knew what they were doing and leave it at that.

The body on the table jerked at least a foot in the air when the paddles touched its chest. A hand flopped to the side, revealing red fingernails and a silver thumb ring. A woman.

A high-pitched whining from one of the machines was getting on my nerves, but I had to give the director credit. The urgency on the faces of the people clustered around the gurney looked pretty real.

"Again." That doc just wasn't gonna give up, was he? Maybe he was hoping for a daytime Emmy—wasn't that what they gave for bad soap operas? The heartburn that made me lie down on the couch was finally gone, but it seemed too much trouble to look for the remote, so I just watched.

The camera angle shifted so that now I was above the action, looking down from a high corner of the room. There was a blond nurse standing at the head of the table, squeezing a bulb-like thing over the patient's face.

The body flopped again at another jolt of electricity while I winced in sympathy. She wasn't a car battery, for goodness sake.

"Check her pupils." The nurse holding the bulb stepped back while another one leaned in with a little flashlight and pried the woman's eyelid open with athumb.

"No reaction, Doctor. Nothing on the EKG, either."

The guy holding the paddles let his shoulders slump, while the two nurses gave each other significant glances. It was then I got a good look at the woman on the bed. Dark hair, cropped short like a boy's, with a telltale streak of pink. She was me.

No sooner had the realization hit when a pulling sensation jerked me up and out of the deathbed scene. Suddenly I was in a dark tunnel, rushing along like I was on the subway, only there were no seats, no drunks, and no rhythmic rattle of rails. There was just me, and a light that grew steadily brighter the faster I went.

I was weightless, and somehow a part of the light, becoming more so the closer I got. It radiated and shimmered like coiled lightning, pulsing white with a golden center, and it drew me like a lodestone. I couldn't wait to see what lay beyond it.

Silence gave way to music, but it wasn't like any I'd ever heard before. It seemed to be coming from the light itself, yet it was all around true music of the soul. There were others there, though I couldn't see them clearly, bright shapes pulsing and flowing.

My forward progress slowed, then stopped. I heard a voice.

"It's not your time, Nicki."

"I'm dreaming, right?"

"You've awakened unto Life, but the dream is not yet over."

I can't explain what perfect sense that statement made, any more than I could explain how so many things that had troubled me in the past suddenly made sense. Like why my mother gave me up for adoption before the cord that bound us had even been cut, or why really bad things happen to really good people. For a few precious moments I actually saw the fabled "grand design" stretched out before me like an infinite spiderweb. I barely had time to grasp it before it was snatched away.

"Go back, Nicki, but don't forget—do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

My body felt strange, heavy. It was an effort to open my eyes, and when I did, I wished I hadn't. The glare of a fluorescent bar surrounded by stained ceiling tiles was not the light I longed for.

"Hey." I felt a hand touch my hair. Evan's face came into view, a very uncharacteristic look of concern in his blue eyes. "How you feeling, girlie?" he asked.

My chest felt like there was an elephant sitting on it and my mouth was dry as sand, but I managed to croak out a reply.

"Like shit."

That brought back the lopsided grin I knew so well, and made me feel a little better. My best friend since childhood, Evan wasn't the type to play nursemaid unless there was a handsome guy around who wanted to play doctor. We'd shared backyards, homework, and confidences while we were growing up, so it had come as no big surprise in junior high when we shared a crush on the same football player.

"What happened?" Talking was an effort.

"You faked a heart attack and almost gave me one in the process." Evan's joking still carried overtones of worry. "Good thing I decided to come check on you when you didn't answer the phone. I knew you didn't have a date, and I couldn't believe you'd go out for Chinese without me."

I licked dry lips, not entirely sure I was awake. "A heart attack?"

"Mitral valve prolapse."

I slid my eyes toward the unfamiliar voice. There was a dark-haired man at the foot of the bed, studying my chart. He wore green surgical scrubs and the typical stethoscope around the neck, and when he glanced up, I recognized him. He was the soap opera guy who tried so hard to save the woman on the gurney.

"A small heart defect, normally benign, but in your case nearly fatal."

He moved to stand across the bed from Evan. "We thought we'd lost you, Miss . . ." He consulted the chart again. ". . . Styx, is it?" He grinned. "I guess you didn't have the right change for the ferryman."

Evan looked at him blankly, but I . . .

Dead Girls Are Easy. Copyright © by Terri Garey. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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A Southern girl with an overactive imagination, RITA® and PRISM Award winner Terri Garey lives in Florida, where anything weird is considered normal. A former computer analyst, she left the dry world of logic behind in order to write novels filled with fantasy, romance, and happily-ever-afters.

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romance_connoisseur More than 1 year ago
Terri Garey has captured me at once with "Dead Girls are Easy" the story of Nikki Styx and her unusual ability to see and converse with the dead. This was a laugh-out-loud riot that was both a refreshing and amusing. Nice easy read, story line flows well, and the characters are fantastically developed. I'd give this one a sixth star if that was an option!
Irish_Lassie More than 1 year ago
I loved this book! In fact all of Teri Garey's in this series are just a hoot to read. The characters are funny, the dialog is wonderful and it is just a FUN book to read. I would recommend it and have!
Guest More than 1 year ago
Wow! This book is awesome. It rocks. This was my first time reading Terri Garey, and I have to say I was more than pleasantly surprised. She is awesome. Nicki Styx has had a near death experience. Now she can see the dead. Falling for Joe, the hunky doctor who brought her back to life, they come together to solve a mystery. The characters are all amazing. The story is flawless and fresh, with plenty of ghouls, laughs, and romance to keep you reading from beginning to end. It's a must read. Terri Garey is amazing.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
I've never read a book by this author and got it on accident. It was pretty funny and I'll read another book by this author again.
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Kaoden39 More than 1 year ago
What a fun book. There is a great mixture of fun and fear in this story. Ms. Garey has a likable heroine in Nicki Styx. She is a fun character that marches to her own drum. To my friends that like a love story within their story this is a good book for you. There were a fun group of supporting characters including Nicki's best friend Evan. It was just fun. The chemistry between the characters is great!! I think that I am not fond of her boyfriend in the book. I cannot tell you why but I do not like him. There is so much to like in this book and I do love it!! The bad guys are such fun bad guys and as with the good guys they are multi-dimensional and I really liked that. Read this!!
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SmittenWithReading More than 1 year ago
My Review: This book is simply a fabulously fun book to read. After being declared dead by Dr. Joe Bascombe, Nicki has come back from the brink with a very special ability...the ability to see dead people whether she wants to or not. Nicki's a goth girl who owns a vintage dress shop with her gay friend, Evan. She's irreverant, snarky, and a bit of a rebel. She feels completely inadequate to deal with the emotions and layers needed to deal with ghosts who have just died and their family members who are grieving the death of their loved one. She's never been religious although her little trip into the "light" has definitely changed her views on religion. Not only does she have to deal with the complication of ghosts showing up in her life, but she also is dealing with a very complicated relationship with her HOT doctor, Joe. (Note: at page 112, I NEEDED someone to chat with about this guy....OMG!?!? shocker!!! So someone read this book for me so we can chat!) He's everything that Nicki's not...a doctor & fairly conservative, but OMG, he has a heart of gold and even though Nicki is spewing some really crazy stuff...he believes her and doesn't discount anything that is happening with her. I love their repartee...so much fun to read! "Sorry, Doc, but I don't let anyone inside my head without an expensive dinner and a bottle or two of wine." ***** Joe unbuckled his seat belt, smiling. "Are you trying to tell me you'll break my heart?" I looked at him very seriously. "No, I'm trying to tell you that I like to play with my lovers and sometimes I play rough." I gave him a wicked grin, going from nice to naughty in a split-second. ***** "Why is everyone I know such a smart-ass?" ***** There was a streak of something white on his cheek. "Mmmm," I said, touching it with a finger and then licking it. "Whipped cream? Are we into the kinky stuff already?" Joe pulled me inside and locked the door. "Only if you ask me very nicely." He grinned wickedly obviously picturing something extremely naughty. ***** "Oh my God." Joe sounded dazed, but happy. "What just happened?" "If I have to explain it to you, then I must not have done it very well." ***** Oops, sorry, I got a little carried away with the quoting there....this book is just so much fun. I love Nicki's off-beat sense of humor and the way that she is constantly harassing Joe. There is a ton of really serious stuff going on both in their relationship and in Nicki's life, but they have such a fun time together through it all. (BTW, that last quote took place in a graveyard...see, fun! hehe) Another fabulous character in this book is Evan, Nicki's friend and business partner. He is a great secondary character and their friendship adds a lot to the book. He is as snarky as Nicki so his comments left me giggling the whole book! This was a great first book. I can't wait to keep reading!!
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2016New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones3739.487
2015New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones3343.434
2014New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4234.553
2013New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones3837.507
2012New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4531.592
2011New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4529.608
2010New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones5124.680
2009New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4530.600
2008New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4530.600
2007New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4925.662
2006New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4133.554
2005New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4036.526
2004New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4331.581
2003New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones4728.627
2002New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones3838.500
2001New York-Pennsylvania LeagueShort-Season ABrooklyn Cyclones5224.684
1957National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8470.545
1956National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9361.604
1955National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9855.641
1954National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9262.597
1953National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers10549.682
1952National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9657.627
1951National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9760.618
1950National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8965.578
1949National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9757.630
1948National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8470.545
1947National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9460.610
1946National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers9660.615
1946Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Brown Dodgers
1945National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8767.565
1945United States Baseball LeagueNegroPhiladelphia Daisies/Brooklyn Brown Dodgers
1944National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers6391.409
1943National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8172.529
1942National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers10450.675
1941National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers10054.649
1940National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8865.575
1940Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1939National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8469.549
1939Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1938National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers6980.463
1937National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers6291.405
1936Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1936National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers6787.435
1935Negro National LeagueNegro MajorsBrooklyn Eagles
1935National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers7083.458
1934National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers7181.467
1933National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers6588.425
1932Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1932National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers8173.526
1931National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7973.520
1931Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1930National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins8668.558
1930Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1929National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7083.458
1928Eastern Colored LeagueNegro MajorsBrooklyn Royal Giants
1928Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Cuban Giants
1928National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7776.503
1927National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins6588.425
1927Eastern Colored LeagueNegro MajorsBrooklyn Royal Giants
1926Eastern Colored LeagueNegro MajorsBrooklyn Royal Giants
1926National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7182.464
1925National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins6885.444
1925Eastern Colored LeagueNegro MajorsBrooklyn Royal Giants
1924National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins9262.597
1924Eastern Colored LeagueNegro MajorsBrooklyn Royal Giants
1923Eastern Colored LeagueNegro MajorsBrooklyn Royal Giants
1923National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7678.494
1922National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7678.494
1922Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1921Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1921National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7775.507
1920National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins9361.604
1920Independent NegroNo ClassificationBrooklyn Royal Giants
1919National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins6971.493
1918National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins5769.452
1917National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7081.464
1916National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins9460.610
1915Federal LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Tip-Tops7082.461
1915National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins8072.526
1914National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Robins7579.487
1914Federal LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Tip-Tops7777.500
1913National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas6584.436
1912National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers5895.379
1911National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Dodgers6486.427
1910National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas6490.416
1909National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas5598.359
1908National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas53101.344
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1907National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas6583.439
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1905National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas48104.316
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1903National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas7066.515
1902National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas7563.543
1901National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas7957.581
1900National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas8254.603
1899National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Superbas10147.682
1898National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Bridegrooms5491.372
1897National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Bridegrooms6171.462
1896National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Bridegrooms5873.443
1895National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grooms7160.542
1894National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grooms7061.534
1893National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grooms6563.508
1892National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grooms9559.617
1891National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grooms6176.445
1890American AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Gladiators2672.265
1890National LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Bridegrooms8643.667
1890Players LeagueMajor LeagueBrooklyn Ward's Wonders7656.576
1889American AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Bridegrooms9344.679
1888American AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Bridegrooms8852.629
1887American AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grays6074.448
1886American AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grays7661.555
1885American AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Grays5359.473
1884Eastern LeagueNo ClassificationBrooklyn Atlantics
1884American AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Atlantics4064.385
1883Interstate AssociationNo ClassificationBrooklyn Greys
1881Eastern Championship AssociationNo ClassificationBrooklyn Atlantics
1877League AllianceNo ClassificationBrooklyn Chelsea
1875National AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Atlantics242.045
1874National AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Atlantics2233.400
1873National AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Atlantics1737.315
1872National AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Eckfords326.103
1872National AssociationMajor LeagueBrooklyn Atlantics928.243

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Carlos Rodon’s Gem Caps USA Baseball Sweep Of Cuba

DURHAM, N.C.—Carlos Rodon admitted he has developed a special affinity for Durham Bulls Athletic Park. It’s where the North Carolina State lefthander pitched 10 dominating innings against North Carolina in an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament game, striking out 14. It’s also where he posed with Wolfpack teammate and roommate Trea Turner and North Carolina’s Kent Emanuel and Colin Moran back in January for the cover of BA’s College Preview issue.

It’s where his 2013 season ended, in a start against Cuba at the end of the summer schedule for USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team. And Tuesday night, it was once again the scene of another Rodon masterpiece.

Carlos Rodon
Carlos Rodon (Photo by Alyson Boyer Rode)

“I love this ballpark,” Rodon said with a smile after his performance Tuesday, when he tossed 6 2/3 scoreless innings, giving up just two hits and striking out 11 in a dominating shutdown of Cuba. The Collegiate National Team had its biggest offensive outburst to back him and won the fifth and final game of the series with Cuba 5-3, sweeping the series. It’s the first five-game sweep for a USA Collegiate National Team against Cuba.

The CNT finishes with a 20-3 record for the summer, with the only three losses coming in a five-game series in Japan. Team USA won all five games against Cuba, but all the games were close, with one-run wins in the opener in Des Moines, Iowa, as well as two games in Omaha. The Americans won by a single run Monday, 3-2 at USA Baseball’s National Training Complex in Cary, N.C., before ending the summer with Rodon’s firepower, five runs and fireworks Tuesday.

“It was an awesome way to end the summer,” said closer Ryan Burr (Arizona State), a freshman who struck out two of the game’s last three batters to notch the save, his sixth of the summer. “This was a snapshot of our entire summer—great pitching, timely hitting, just playing USA Baseball. It was awesome to be able to do it with a nice crowd in this great ballpark, against a great team like Cuba.”

Coach Jim Schlossnagle (Texas Christian) addressed his team on its last day off, when it was coming to North Carolina after winning the first three games of the series in the Midwest. He was pleased the Americans had won the series but challenged to see if his team could do something no other U.S. club had done—sweep a five-game set. They came through for him with defensive execution, making only one error in the five-game series and none in the final two games.

“We knew the goals at the start of the year were to win the Japan series (in Japan), which hasn’t been done in 40 years, and to win this Cuba series,” Schlossnagle said. “When we didn’t win the series in Japan, the guys were disappointed—really disappointed. We talked about it every day. We said, ‘Hey, the only way to make up for it is to win this Cuba series.'”

Tuesday, they did it behind Rodon, who was in such command that N.C. State coach Elliott Avent, who was in attendance, said it was likely the best Rodon ever had thrown. The lefthander hit 96 mph on the stadium radar gun and sat at 93-95 mph with his fastball, commanding it more than usual. He also had excellent command of his power slider, which regularly hit 87, and his 89-90 mph cutter. Rodon added a changeup that Avent said was the best he’s ever thrown.

“I had David Price in 2006 (with Team USA), and David and Carlos have some similarities,” Schlossnagle said. “The bodies are different, but both guys were really fastball-slider guys. David had maybe a little bit better fastball command at a similar stage (of development), but he didn’t have that overhand power breaking ball like Carlos has. And tonight Carlos’ changeup was better than what David threw at that time. (Mississippi coach) Mike Bianco and Carlos have worked on that this summer and you saw tonight, Carlos really threw some nice changeups.”

Rodon finished the season 3-0 in four outings for the CNT, tossing 17 scoreless innings and allowing just five hits and four walks while striking out 21. He led the way as the U.S. pitching staff posted a 1.87 ERA over 23 games, with 222 strikeouts and 64 walks in 197 innings.

“It was a great experience with a great group of guys,” Rodon said. “We had a bunch of all-stars on that team, and we played some good baseball. Overall, it was a lot of fun.”

The American offense had its best game of the series, getting a pair of doubles from Michael Conforto (Oregon State), one of five players with an RBI. Turner scored two runs and had a stolen base out of the leadoff spot, and corner infielder Taylor Sparks (UC Irvine), who played first base Tuesday after playing third on Monday, had an infield hit in the finale and finished the summer batting a team-best .396 in 53 at-bats.


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Il perchè dei cambiamenti dei talenti nell'ultima beta patch
  • grallenMost Valuable Poster 06 giugno 2016, 07:30 grallen
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    Dal caos si crea l'ordine e dell'ordine si genera il caos.
    Un lungo intervento di Celestalon sul perchè dei cambiamenti ai talenti nelle ultime beta patch e quale filosofia stanno osservando.

    In particolare stanno cercando di offrire ottime scelte in tutte le file dei talenti dove ogni talento possa essere importante ma non un obbligo da prendere.

    Celestalon ha scritto
    ey all.

    The last two Beta builds have included a number of changes to talents for many specs, most of which involved rearranging the talent trees, and/or tweaking some talents to be useful in more situations. I'd like to give a little context about those changes, and discuss the further implications of them.

    Goals and Obstacles

    One of the goals of talents in Legion is to provide more meaningful choice than before, with a focus on customizing your gameplay to suit your tastes. More than ever before, there are options to add or remove complexity, skew what your spec excels at, or opt into alternative rotation styles.

    We've moved away from talent rows containing 3 flavors of the same thing, to choices that are impactful in completely different ways. We're not going back on that, but trying out differences as extreme as we were has revealed some new problems. In many cases, the difference between talents was so stark in common situations that it became more of a 'test', and less of a choice.

    The Current Situation

    There are no hard and fast rules to what makes a good talent row or talent tree, and there are legitimate exceptions to nearly every idea about good talent design, but one of the biggest sticking points is around multi-target damage. Talents can have a huge variety of impacts on damage, falling on a spectrum that ranges from purely increasing single target damage (such as Pyromaniac to being awesome in mass-AoE but having no value at all against a single target (such as Fire and Brimstone). The majority of talents are somewhere in the middle, offering solid value in most situations.

    In many cases, we had talent rows that pitted talents at opposite ends of the spectrum against each other, such as the Arcane level 15 row, where you had the choice of two purely single-target talents against a talent that offered only a little against a single target, but massive value in AoE. This wasn't an interesting choice, it was just a test of whether you could pick the right talent for the situation, and the difference was so strong that you felt punished for having the wrong one.

    The Solution and Further Implications

    However, we don't want to go back to a world where a talent row is about picking which slightly different flavor of AoE you want. We've opted to rearrange things such that you have more choices that mix generally useful talents vs the more specialized talents. Hopefully that line between the theoretical best talent and the others will be a bit more blurry now, and the talent you do choose won't feel like a wasted talent point in many situations.

    As you may have guessed, these changes are going to require a cascade of other related changes, mostly around tuning. Not every talent row is equally valuable (nor are they intended to be), and with new talents competing with each other, adjustments will have to be made. Talents that moved, and their competition, will have to be retuned to become viable choices. Additionally, the overall strength of some specs in common situations will be adjusted to account for talents now offering more or less in those situations. An example of this is Assassination Rogues, whose baseline AoE damage was low, but had an extremely strong AoE talent in Blood Sweat, creating one of those obvious 'test' problem cases. We opted to remove Blood Sweat, adding choice to that talent row, and will be improving their baseline AoE capabilities instead.

    We'd love to hear your feedback about these changes, and what you think about talent choices in general at this point. Thanks!

    Per chiunque curioso andate a vedere il TALENT CALCULATOR aggiornato.

    Invito in particolare @Tarty , @Greymane e a tutti coloro che hanno la beta ed anche no a dire la propria :)
  • Deinoforo 06 giugno 2016, 07:35 Deinoforo
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    micio micio miao miao
    non ho idea di cosa sia il sistema talenti, dopo essermi spoilerato tutto di WoD ho deciso di iniziare Legion più ignorante possibile rofl 0
  • Ilprincipe1989 06 giugno 2016, 12:36 Ilprincipe1989
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    Iscritto il: 17 settembre 2014, 12:49
    beh rimettere al druido tank il pulverize alla fine mi sembra tutto fuorchè lasciare libera scelta 0
  • TartyMost Valuable Poster 06 giugno 2016, 16:52 Tarty
    BattleTag: Tatyanna#2538
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    Shaman Draenei - Runetotem
    Troll dell'Alleanza nonchè regina di cazzate
    "One of the goals of talents in Legion is to provide more meaningful choice than before, with a focus on customizing your gameplay to suit your tastes"

    e come si coniuga questa scelta con il fatto di dover tornare in città ogni volta per cambiare un talento?


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The Women’s Center at Baylor Medical Center at Frisco offers free valet parking, luxurious surroundings and concierge. And, while these all say "five-star hotel," don’t be fooled. Our Women’s Center is all about expert service and quality care for you and your baby.

Each suite has its own flat panel television and customized furniture to look like home rather than a hospital room. In addition, the suites feature a specialized camera system through which nurses and other medical staff can monitor patients, especially those who need additional observation. The camera system also offers a webcam component for our guests who wish to communicate with friends and family members. All newborn babies are monitored by an ankle bracelet with internal GPS capabilities and an alarm system to prevent babies from being taken outside unit before they are properly discharged.

With free childbirth classes, an embroidered baby gift blanket and a celebration dinner, we assure the birth of your child will start off first class.

Should your baby require extra care, our neonatal intensive care unit’s (NICU) specially trained staff is available 24 hours a day.

Neonatal Intensive Care

The Baylor Frisco Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides advanced life-support services and technologies for premature and seriously ill newborns.

Staffed by specialized nurses, nutritionists, neonatologists and many other skilled staff, the unit is designed to promote optimal developmental care for sick infants.

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Free Workshops

You and your baby will start off on the right foot with our no-fee workshops. There’s plenty to choose from for both moms and dads-to-be. And, as always, open house events with tours are available most Mondays.

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Simply Mom's

Simply Mom's is a women's and children's boutique in Frisco designed to provide new mothers convenient access to breastfeeding supplies. Staffed by lactation consultants, new parents can ask questions of staff while shopping.

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Gynecologic Care

Baylor Medical Center at Frisco provides an array of gynecological services for women in every stage of life. Whether you’re looking for a new physician for your yearly exam or need advanced gynecological care, you can trust Baylor Frisco.

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