When Willie Mays played for the New York Giants, he hit 4 home runs in 8 innings – and was on deck when the Giants’ final out was made. Hank Aaron hit 2 home runs in that 1961 game, the most combined home runs in one game by two hall of famers. You will be happy to know that I remembered that Mays story from reading it about 50 years ago.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MLN/MLN196104300.shtml
https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/april-30-1961-the-say-hey-kids-four-homer-game/
Saturday: skipped golf. Housework upstairs. Laundry while watching Olympic golf, then USA vs Puerto Rico in basketball. Went to get my emissions checked. Also got my free Taco Bell nacho fries and RaceTrac drink. And my free birthday slice at Cheesecake Factory, but made the mistake I always tell myself not to make. Always stick to a simple flavor cheesecake. Plain cheesecake is great. I messed up and got peanut butter and chocolate. It was like 10% cheesecake. Good, but I missed out on the cheesecake. My bad.
Made Ceil’s leftover chicken salad into a sandwich for lunch. She made homemade pizza for supp.
Sunday School and worship. Forgot to count attendance. Usually we sit in the back, where I can count. This time we sat in the front because C was talking to Tracey. Leftovers for lunch and supper. Chicken salad and a patty melt. Lazy day. Plopped on the couch to watch Scottie win gold. Went to bed before 9 pm.
Up early to go to the gym. Maybe my pain in finally starting to lessen. We shall see. I want to play golf twice this week.
For lunch today I cashed in my free birthday buffet at CiCi’s Pizza. For the win. Lots of guys who looked like me were there.
With a wedding in mid September, it’s too early for me to get a haircut, though I’m starting to get a little shaggy. Imentioned to Ceil that I need her to give me a little trim, and she acted like she’d been waiting years to hear me say this.
Most wins in an 11 year stretch, by hall of fame pitchers from the 1990’s…
198 Greg Maddux
191 Tom Glavine
178 Randy Johnson
176 Pedro Martinez
176 Roger Clemens
174 Andy Pettitte
155 John Smoltz
A developer bought an abandoned baseball stadium in Indianapolis and turned the grandstands into condos.
From jail cell to Olympic gold, Scottie Scheffler isn’t concerned about his legacy, saying “ultimately, we’ll all be forgotten”.
THOUGHT: not sure, but has Scottie singlehandedly started a trend of gold medal winning USA athletes singing the national anthem from the awards podium? The men's 100 meter winner sang. Up next: LeBron and Simone and Diana and former Russian hostage Brittney.
RUBE WADDELL [SABR Bio] was the first American League pitcher to strike out at least 300 batters two seasons in a row: 302 in 1903 and 349 in 1904, for Connie Mack’s Philadelphia A’s. Wadell played for CHC in 1901. In perhaps the first great pitching duel of the Modern Era, he and Cy Young both pitched every inning until the tie was broken in the 20th. Waddell still had enough strength to do cartwheels on the field after defeating Young on 04-Jul-1905. A write-up can be found here. On 01-Jul-1902, in the 3rd inning, Waddell set down three Baltimore Oriole batters on 9 straight strikes – the second “immaculate inning” ever recorded.
DENISON: the financial news of recent days that is causing many to wonder if a recession is imminent: (1) the Dow closed down more than 600 points on Friday, (2) the Nasdaq fell 10% below its record high on disappointing earnings from Amazon and Intel, (3) US hiring unexpectedly declined sharply in July, (4) unemployment rose in the month as well, (5) investors fear the Federal Reserve made a mistake by keeping interest rates at current levels, and (5) the cacophony of bad news is sparking a global sell-off. Earlier today, Japanese stocks suffered their biggest one-day drop in history. European stocks have fallen more than 2% in early trading this morning. Many have been struggling financially for some time. In a new CNN poll, 39% of US adults said they worry they won’t be able to make ends meet. The percentage of past due credit cards is at its highest level since 2012. Young adults are discouraged and 60-year-olds are “staring at financial peril.” Is a recession imminent? (denisonforum.org)
ME: what gets me (in additional to seeing my savings wiped out), is that some politicians continue to talk about how great “their” economy is and how any bad news was caused by the administration who’s been out of office four 4 years – and how half the country continues to believe all the scripted crapola that comes out of their mouths. Not that the other side is doing any better. Pretty fed up with the entire political process right now.
Last week I was checking my savings and didn’t feel too bad about retirement. Now no telling what will happen. Could get much worse by Christmas, they say. Guess I’m gonna have to rely on God.
You might think many of my thoughts and opinions are pretty vanilla and uncontroversial and old school, but you know, they are most probably in line with a vast majority of Americans. I'm not trying to be different and flashy. I'm just trying to be me, a child of God and follower of Jesus.
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