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ANGELS OF MERCY: When Angels second baseman...

By Jerry Hicks, Tom Hamilton and Helene Elliott

ANGELS OF MERCY: When Angels second baseman Ken Oberkfell heard about a Chino couple killed in a car crash last week, he passed the hat among his fellow players to raise money for the couple’s three children, who were injured. In a short time, his fellow Angels contributed a total of $5,000. . . . After Sunday’s game against Minnesota, several of them drove to Pomona to visit the hospitalized children. “This wasn’t for publicity; this was from the heart,” says Angels official Larry Babcock.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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