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GALLERY
At last, a baseball giveaway you can use

UNION-TRIBUNE

May 17, 2008

The Grand Prairie (Texas) AirHogs minor league baseball team will offer one lucky fan a free funeral.

The “All Hogs Go to Heaven” promotion will pay for funeral expenses, valued at $10,000. It includes a casket, headstone, plot and services.

The sales manager of the sponsoring Irving cemetery said the award's expiration date is the same as the winner's.

“If you're 20 and you get it and you live to be 90, of course, we'll still honor it,” Oak Grove Memorial Gardens sales manager Ron Alexander told The Dallas Morning News.

TRIVIA TIME

What league do the Grand Prairie AirHogs play in?

THIS DAY IN HARDBALL

On today's date in 1977 the Cubs hit seven home runs in beating the Padres 23-6 at Wrigley Field. Larry Biittner, Jerry Morales and Bobby Murcer hit consecutive home runs in the fifth for the Cubs.

PARTING SHOT

From “Last Comic Standing” host Bill Bellamy, to FSN, on his cousin Shaquille O'Neal: “He's rich, and he's my third cousin. If he was to give me some money, he'd be my first cousin.”

TRIVIA ANSWER

The independent American Association. A revival of the former Triple-A league that dissolved in 1997, the new American Association was formed in 2005 by the combination of the independent Northern and Central leagues.

– COMPILED BY STEVE OAKEY FROM NEWS SERVICES, ONLINE REPORTS


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