Shortstop makes outstanding "catch".(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(rescue work)

Nomar Garciaparra is known to the fans in Wrigley Field as the Chicago Cubs shortstop who wears number 5. He has a lifetime batting average of .320 and like most Major League Baseball players is well paid, earning $8,250,000 in 2005. From 1996 through 2004, however, Garciaparra played for the Boston Red Sox, where he still has many fans and friends.

On the evening of October 7, Nomar Garciaparra and his uncle and business adviser, Victor, were back in Boston, cleaning and painting a riverside condo both men own jointly in Charlestown. They could hear the sounds of laughing from the river walk beneath them. Victor explained to a Chicago Tribune reporter what happened next: "Then we heard a splash, and it sounded kind of close. We looked down and saw someone in the water, and so Nomar started running down."

Victor followed Nomar down toward the river. As they raced downstairs, a second woman fell off a balcony. Victor continued his story: "When she fell, it was about a 12- or 15-foot drop, and I thought she had hit the deck of the pier, so I jumped off a balcony. I figured she was ...