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Bill Mazeroski, 89, Whose 9th-Inning Blast Made Pirates Champs, Is Dead

John Shirreffs, 80, Dies; Trainer of a Nearly Perfect Horse

He guided Zenyatta, a spectacular mare, to 19 consecutive wins. Earlier, he won the Kentucky Derby with Giacomo, a 50-1 long shot.

Michael Silverblatt, NPR’s ‘Bookworm’ Who Interviewed Authors, Dies at 73

His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.