Unproven rookies don’t get to choose their uniform numbers.
So when Jason Heyward, a 20-year-old right fielder, reported to the Atlanta Braves’ Lake Buena Vista, Florida, spring training complex last February, he was issued No. 71. Anonymous. Forgettable. The type of number that keeps you humble.
Heyward hit the ball hard in the Braves’ early spring training game—hard enough for manager Bobby Cox and the team’s star veterans to take notice.
Art Linkletter died on May 26, 2010 at his home in Bel Air, California. Read his inspiring story about achieving success and finding true meaning in life.
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In his journey through life, Art Linkletter has known poverty and wealth; personal tragedy and public acclaim.
Astute businessman, popular ratio and television performer and author of best-selling books, he has achieved a level of success in business and in life that few reach.
Six years ago, Mike Berry walked with his daughter to school and it changed his life—and the lives of thousands of children in western Colorado.
As he left the school, a little girl ran across the playground to him, weeping. She told him she was cold and hungry, and had slept in the car the night before.
“God stabbed me in the heart,” Berry recalls. “I knew I had to do something to help that girl and others like her.”
Grant Whybark is a sophomore at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois. For decades, Joliet’s claim to fame was linked to crime and corruption. It was where Al Capone went to blow off steam. Where graft and grifters and loose law enforcement coalesced to create the anti-Mayberry.
Meredith Iler, a 43-year-old public relations firm president, reserves 50 hours of her busy week to help raise money for injured veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Texas resident chairs a board at the Houston nonprofit organization, Helping a Hero, which aims to build handicapped-accessible houses for the wounded troops, the Houston Chronicle reports.
About 400 volunteers in Connecticut are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep the blind informed about current events, the stock market and news from the food pages of their local newspapers.
The Connecticut Radio Information System (CRIS), in its 31st year of operation, has become known as the Constitution State's "Talking Newsstand for the Blind and Print Handicapped," the Hartford Courant reports.
Managers at Habitat for Humanity in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood recently reported that a group of burglars stole 17 brand-new appliances from several of the organization's unfinished homes.
That was all community members needed to hear before large donations began rolling in to replace the appliances.
The Mountain Inn in Killington, Vermont, was about to close for the season, when its managers received a call from a group of British schoolboys who had checked out the previous day after skiing all week.
The boys had taken a 6-hour bus ride to New York City, only to find out that their flight back to England was cancelled because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, the Associated Press reports.
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