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Total Eclipse of the Park: The Guardians’ home opener coincides with a rare solar eclipse

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CLEVELAND — Befuddled birds will start chirping. Drivers trapped in a boundless traffic snarl will halt their honking. The temperature will plunge. Sluggers swatting batting practice tosses at Progressive Field will pause for a cosmic intermission. At 3:13 p.m. ET on April 8, the springtime sky above downtown Cleveland will host a total solar eclipse, …

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Ken MacKenzie, a Rare Winner on the 1962 Mets, Dies at 89

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Ken MacKenzie, a left-handed reliever who was the only pitcher with a winning record on the famously hapless 1962 New York Mets, died on Thursday at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 89. His death was announced by the Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz. The Mets were one of two expansion franchises preparing to join …