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ElRoy Face, Ace Forkballer and Effective Closer for Pirates, Dies at 97

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:51:21 +0000

Face was one of the first major-league hurlers to make the closer job a specialty. Not an overpowering pitcher, he finagled outs with a tricky forkball.

King Leatherbury, Trainer and Trader of Horses, Dies at 92

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:36:12 +0000

He trained mostly lesser-known, cheaper thoroughbreds in Maryland and was the fifth-winningest trainer in North American history.

Roy Medvedev, Soviet Era Historian and Dissident, Is Dead at 100

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:09:27 +0000

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.