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    Written by my dear friend, Bill McCurdy – hope you enjoy!

    http://bill37mccurdy.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/the-niekro-family-love-never-forgets-nor-says-goodbye/

    Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009
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    Arizona Fall League partners with The Joe Niekro Foundation

    I am so excited to announce a fabulous partnership and October promotion with The Arizona Fall League.  Fate has turned it’s hand once again and great things lie ahead.  The week of October 26th is being named Aneurysm Awareness Week, in honor of The Joe Niekro Foundation.  Dad had his aneurysm on 10/26/06 and was kept alive […]

    Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2009
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    There IS crying in baseball

    THERE is crying in baseball. Hall of Famer Phil Niekro and his 318 wins and 3,342 strikeouts are proof. The biggest day of the knuckleballer’s career came 50 years ago when the coal miner’s son sat at the kitchen table and signed a contract with the Milwaukee Braves. “I got a $500 bonus and jumped […]

    Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009
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    A Tribute to the Niekro Name and The Knuckleball

    For those of you that didn’t know, I had the opportunity to throw out the first pitch at the Houston Astros game Sunday, September 13th.    I think I shocked many when I not only made it from the mound to the plate without bouncing, but that it was a knuckler straight down the middle.  It did […]

    Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2009
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    My Heart is Heavy

    Today, I write this with a bleeding heart as I just learned of a friend’s seven year old son who is in a medically induced coma, due to a sudden ruptured brain aneurysm last week.  Seven years old???  What a reminder of how important the funding for research is so drastically needed.  These enemies are so brutal, taking […]

    Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009
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