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AMERICAN LEAGUE CENTRAL TIEBREAKER White Sox 1, Twins 0 / Two 38-year-olds put Chicago in ALDS / Thome's bat, Griffey's arm are key to victory

Oct. 1, 2008
Thanks to Jim Thome's bat and Ken Griffey Jr.'s arm, the AL Central has a winner at last: the White Sox. John Danks pitched eight innings of two-hit ball on short rest, Thome homered and Griffey threw out a runner at the plate with a tough tag by A.J....
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic