There was one last derisive taunt. Were the baseball gods mocking him, too? Aside from that semi-drama, Soto wasn’t really a factor in the result. Before his ninth-inning failure, he had walked ...

British paras succeeded in capturing eight bridges, but the Germans resolutely held Arnhem, which General Frederick 'Boy' Browning famously described as "a bridge too far". Of 12,000 British ...