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The St. Louis Cardinals have demoted Kolton Wong to the Minor Leagues.


Wong, who began the season as the team's starting second baseman, was sent to Triple-A Memphis.


The 23-year-old was batting .225 with five RBIs in 71 at-bats and didn't play in the last two games of a weekend series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.


"This will give [Wong] a chance to play every day [at Memphis], and if he gets back on track, that would be helpful," John Mozeliak said.

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John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe for $70 million.


The purchase price represents a massive drop from its record $1.1 billion price two decades ago.


The deal will give Henry the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites and affiliated companies.

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锘? On the opening page of ?The Sandbox,? David Zimmerman?s gripping first novel about the Iraq war, Pvt. Toby Durrant?s convoy comes across a dead girl in the road, her body ?a small white mound, like a fallen bird.? Toby?s response is to ?put this child in the small cigar box I keep hidden in the back of my head, close its cardboard lid and snap a couple of rubber bands around it to keep it tightly shut. Just like I?ve done with the rest.? In other words, Toby reacts to the war in the same way much of America does: he compartmentalizes it. He and his fellow soldiers do what they can to manage a relentless series of horrors that are better off concealed in locked boxes, the contents of each sharing a dark relationship to the others. The exact nature of that relationship, and the possible conspiracy it hints at, provides the drama that propels this book forward. Consigned to one of Iraq?s dustier corners as a bottom-rung grunt after being kicked out of Army Airborne training and flunking out of the Defense Language Institute, Toby is well versed in the self-deprecating sarcasm of those forced to pretend they don?t care: ?The captain stares at me. I can?t see his eyes behind the sunglasses Matteo Darmian Jersey UK , just two tiny Durrant heads reflected in the lenses. These Durrant heads look unhappy and tense.? Like many soldiers, Toby obsesses over the gap between the good life and the soul-sucking, latrine-dump-burning duties of low-ranking warriors. After his stateside girlfriend breaks up with him, he smokes a fine cigar he received from a sympathetic sergeant: ?The cigar is good. It tastes like a better life. One I might have had if my parents had taken a left instead of a right, if I had said no instead of yes, if I had kept my eyes on the ball, if I had cleaned my plate, brushed my teeth and said my prayers. It tastes so good I can barely smoke it. The better life makes me choke a little.? For a character like this, in a war as full of indiscretion, deception and savage violence as Iraq?s, there can really be only one destiny: the wrong end of a bad deal. But Zimmerman has more in mind than merely getting a hard-luck soldier into trouble. ?The Sandbox? is loaded with an M.R.E. caseful of plot elements Marouane Fellaini Jersey UK , all pulled from Iraq war headlines ? lost billions in cash, prisoner interrogations, soldier indiscretions, failed counterinsurgency plans ? and all play their part in bringing Toby?s story to its terrible conclusion. That every question in this novel interrogates every other is one of its great strengths and will keep you turning the pages of its short chapters, as each weaves the insistent first-person mystery of ?Why me?? with the larger mystery of ?What are we doing here?? ?The Sandbox? is a strong debut even though Zimmerman?s prose tends toward the purple (often literally: a find-and-?replace on ?purple? would have improved many of the book?s landscapes). He can tug a little too hard at the heartstrings, as when he describes the scenery near a bombed-out toy factory: ?The road to the capital is still strewn with dusty pink rabbits and purple bears.? Still, by aiming too high, Zimmerman often hits the mark. Those burned toys, for instance, introduce an affecting story line about a young Iraqi child. There?s also an interrogation of an old Iraqi, ?Uncle Insurgent Marcus Rashford Jersey UK ,? that stuns even as it flirts with bathos. The prisoner, so frail ?there was hardly any hajji under the robe,? makes declarations that sound like a jailhouse letter from Ulrike Meinhof: ?I have 10 guns and you call me bandit. You have million guns, so they call you soldier.? This should be ridiculous ? if anybody?s going to get a line like that, it should be the tent-corner intellectual you find in every unit reading a dog-eared copy of Howard Zinn ? but Zimmerman?s willingness to risk melodrama is often matched by his ability to turn it into genuine feeling. As ?The Sandbox? comes to a close, Toby learns that war?s final revelations are incomplete and that every bunker confession is in doubt. When an officer gives his version of the events that have engulfed Toby and his friends in an apocalypse of death and deceit, Toby says: ?I don?t know whether to believe the captain?s entire story, part or none. . . . It sounds too clever by half. Nothing that happens in this war adds up quite so neatly. I walk back and forth. . . . One, two, thre.