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pic.twitter.com/RArUeoiBB1Saddened to share that my dad passed away in his sleep last night. He worked as hard as anyone I’ve ever known and he treated those he encountered with great respect…and he took me to work a lot.

“We lost over 500 people in D.C. last year to overdoses, both people who are intentionally using opioids and people whose drugs are laced with opioids who don’t know it,” says Alexandra Bradley, the outreach and community engagement manager for the D.C.-based harm reduction organization HIPS, Inc., which serves communities impacted by sex work and substance abuse.“We’ve seen fentanyl show up in cocaine and methamphetamine and other drugs, which are stimulants,” notes Bradley.

“We lost over 500 people in D.C. last year to overdoses, both people who are intentionally using opioids and people whose drugs are laced with opioids who don’t know it,” says Alexandra Bradley, the outreach and community engagement manager for the D.C.-based harm reduction organization HIPS, Inc., which serves communities impacted by sex work and substance abuse.“We’ve seen fentanyl show up in cocaine and methamphetamine and other drugs, which are stimulants,” notes Bradley.

Jim “Mudcat” Grant was a Major League Baseball player who was the first Black pitcher to win 20 games in a season in the American League.After playing in the minor leagues for four seasons, Grant made his MLB debut with the Cleveland Indians in 1958. In 1964, he was traded to the Minnesota Twins, where he would have some of the best years of his career.

Mike Marshall was an MLB pitcher who was the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.Marshall didn’t make his Major League debut until 1967, when he was 24 years old, pitching for the Detroit Tigers. He would go on to play for nine teams over 14 seasons, with perhaps his most notable years coming with the Montreal Expos from 1970 to 1973 and the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1974 to 1976.

@braves legend Phil Niekro passed away overnight at the age of 81. https://t.co/aj7uScYnuy pic.twitter.com/F1GmX9Yb1nNancy and I are deeply saddened by the news today of the passing of Phil Niekro.

https://t.co/relegATjN3I wrote about Mike McCormick's fascinating Giants career. He was 17 and living in a hotel by himself when he was a rookie, just a couple months after high school, which is as interesting to me as his Cy Young.