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KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP)Awkwardly using crutches for the first time since he was 9 years old, David Robertson made the way to his locker on the left side of the New York Yankees spring training clubhouse as Joba Chamberlain ran by with some good-natured, sarcastic remarks about carrying boxes.

After learning Robertsons foot injury was minor, the reliever and his teammates could laugh.

Theres always a little worry, Robertson said. Now that Ive heard the news, Im happy.

Two days after Robertson fell on the stairs of his home in St. Petersburg, tests results came back Friday afternoon that diagnosed a bone bruise. Robertson stayed back in Tampa on Saturday for treatment while many of his teammates bused for a spring training game against the Atlanta Braves.

I dont sense hes going to be out that long, manager Joe Girardi said.

Robertson planned work out later Saturday to exercise his rotator cuff and his abs. He wanted no part of throwing from a chair.

Im hoping to avoid that. Ive seen people do it, he said. Ill wait an extra dayor try to.

Robertson is to wear a protective boot through Sunday. He wont throw on a mound until the soreness is gone.

Before the test results came in, Robertson was a little bit worried.

My thoughts were, worst-case scenario, lets say something is broken, it would be four, five weeks, come back and just stay off it. It would ruin me for the start of the season, he said.

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Published: March. 5, 2012 at 2:17 AM

NEDERLAND, Colo., March 5 (UPI) -- The Pink Socks reaffirmed their dominance Sunday afternoon, winning the coffin races for a third straight year at the Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colo.

The team, consisting of six pink-clad casket-bearers and one rather lively "corpse" from the University of Colorado, churned through the snow-, slush and mud-filled course in a winning time of under 50 seconds, The Denver Post reported. The Donner Party came in second.

"Our jobs are just a way to fund our passion for coffin-racing," team captain Joel Weber said.

It was a sun-filled, raucous end to the festival, the day after some events were canceled because of bitter cold and 60 mph winds.

"Yesterday was the worst day of my life," festival owner Amanda MacDonald said.

"Today is the best."

An estimated 15,000 people filled the town that normally boasts a population of about 1,400 to celebrate Frozen Dead Guy Days, which refers to Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, whose body has been packed in dry ice in a mountainside shed since 1993.

After Morstoel died in Norway at age 89, his son brought his body to Nederland in 1989 in hopes of building a cryonics center. While the facility never materialized, for 11 winters now people have turned out in droves to honor a frozen Norwegian they never knew by having some fun in the cold.

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Coffin race wraps up Frozen Dead Guy Days

NEDERLANDWith pastel on their bodies and determination in their eyes, the Pink Socks soaked the competition in the Frozen Dead Guy Days Coffin Races for a third year in a row on a chilly, windy afternoon.

They toted a teammate in a coffin around a snowy-to-muddy course near the Nederland reservoir in under 50 seconds, leaving their final heat competitors, the pioneer-garbed Donner Party, eating their slush.

"Our jobs are just a way to fund our passion for coffin-racing," wisecracked Joel Weber, captain of the team of University of Colorado engineering graduate school students.

Today was a catch-up day for more than just coffin racers.

Some of Saturday's festivities were cancelled because of bitter cold and winds of more than 60 mph that were toppling tents early in the morning.

"Yesterday was the worst day of my life," said Amanda MacDonald, who had organized three previous Frozen Dead Guy Days before buying the festival from the Nederland Area Chamber of Commerce last year.

"Today is the best."

The crowd's roar at the Coffin Races finish had been magnificent to MacDonald, who also was celebrating her birthday today.

MacDonald estimated the two-day festival's total crowd Sunday at up to 15,000. The celebration honors Nederland's resident frozen dead guy, Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, whose body has been packed in dry ice in a Tuff Shed on the nearby mountainside since 1993.

When he died at 89 years old, his son brought him to Nederland from Norway in 1989 in hopes of building a cryonics facility that never materialized.

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Revelry rules as Frozen Dead Guy Days wraps up with coffin races

Ted Williams arrived in Boston as a 20-year-old full of vim and vigor, making his debut April 15, 1939, in an exhibition game against the crosstown Braves.

His first Fenway Park appearance came six days later, with a single and an RBI in five at-bats against the Philadelphia Athletics.

Over the next 21 years, Williams gave Boston and the Red Sox quite a show a man from an uneven family background who flashed his temper, lent much time to charity and became the last .400 hitter.

He hit baseballs, flew jets during the Korean War and cast fishing lines everywhere. He even used a shotgun to shoot pigeons at Fenway, drawing the wrath of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The charismatic Williams made for great copy.

As noted in Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures, Williams was "the perfect subject" for Boston's newspaper circulation wars in which more than a dozen daily papers in and around the city fought for readers.

While his batting feats were noteworthy, authors Richard Johnson and Glenn Stout say "Williams' complex, multilayered personality was ripe for analysis. And Ted found it impossible to shut up."

Early on, the fans got involved, with many becoming disenchanted with Williams' inability to take advantage of the bullpens built just for him after his rookie year.

It was now 380 feet down 22 feet to straightaway right field, and New Englanders expected more shots landing in Fenway's new "Williamsburg" section. Instead, he was benched in 1940 by manager Joe Cronin amid falling production (his Fenway homer total dropped from 14 in 1939 to nine in 1940), lapses in the field and a surly disposition.

Criticism poured in, and Ted took note. ("I always kept up with my critics," he admitted in his 1969 autobiography, My Turn at Bat.)

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