the president always threw out the first pitch in griffin stadium and roy stephens was the and she wrote me a letter that i would be absent from school that day. it was baseball season obviously for blair too. so i missed practice. >> it was the bottom of the ninth and washington was losing, seavers stepped up to the plate and hit his first homer of the season. washington went on the win chblt u was at home plate to shake his hand and we celebrated. >> the next day turner's coach asked why he had missed practice. when turner told pulled out the newspaper. >> and on the front page was my picture shaking hands with seavers and he said you were at griffin stadium weren't you? and i said yes. he said you're off the team. >> turner missed the entire season and worried it might keep him from playing in college. >> if he knew the amount of coaching i got from rocky because it was a lot more than i got from his practices. >> recently turner and his body who worked the scoreboard back there returned to the site of griffith stadium for the first time in 60 years. it's now howard university hospita

ost: roy from salome springs, arkansas, on the republican line with stephen dinan. caller: thank you. taking my call. my name is roy hammers, i used to be the mayor. a dam between the spring and -- that the court engineers in 1946, i believe. it fell down and now flooding down to that is river south of dam, why isn't there earmark for that? one.ld really like to see and that is what earmarks are it?d for, isn't guest: oh, yeah, a good example where earmark might be particularly for local constituents who want their members of congress to federal money, yeah, that would be a prime example of -- i the specifics on this case, but that is something we're one local, maybe a whole bunch of locals say that project should be built and the local of congress or senator would have, be in touch with constituents and be able to for that if earmarks were there, that project might get added into the mix because lawmaker is istening to constituents closely. host: talk about the cost of earmarks, do they redirect the actually a bill or make bills more expensive? they by and large, re