Alan Alda turned 90. Lots of old clips on social media. I need to watch Paper Lion. His birthday wish was to be rolled out on the beach. He invited the three living cast members from MASH: Radar, BJ, and Klinger.
When I think of Amarillo I think about the church where we stopped on choir tour, when we later had to get tetanus shots because of a bad batch of taco salad. I always heard of Glorietta but never went. Great name.
The workers got here early today. C went to her class at the East Piedmont gym, and later I lifted weights at my usual gym on Johnson Ferry. Lifted weights and stretched for almost an hour, sat in the sauna for 30 minutes, then hit the treadmill for 30 minutes. Got a zoom call this afternoon. Later I'm dumping more old things from the garage into the dumpster parked in our driveway, if its not too full already.
Found several old football helmets that I had stashed away. Falcons, Bears, Vikings, OG Jaguars, Dolphins, Auburn, Georgia Tech, Chargers. Also more batting helmets.
WALT DROPO [SABR Bio] collected more RBI one year than the number of games he played. In 1950, his first full year in the majors, Dropo played in 136 games for the Red Sox & led both leagues with 144 RBI, one shy of Ted Williams' team RBI record by a rookie. Shortly after being traded to the Tigers, Dropo had a hit in 12 consecutive at-bats:
1. Mon 14-Jul-1952 DET at NYY 5 for 5 all singles
2. Tue 15-Jul-1952(1) DET at WSH 4 for 4 all singles
3. Tue 15-Jul-1952(2) DET at WSH 4 for 5 single, double, & triple, then fouled out to end the streak - followed by another single in the 9th. At 6'5", 220 lbs Dropo starred at his hometown University of Connecticut in football, basketball, & baseball. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears and the Providence Steamrollers of the Basketball Association of America.
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