Wednesday: went shopping on the way home. Trying not to buy any more Nike products, and of course I found a nice navy long sleeve pullover. Also a cool pair of black high tops that I didn't need. Didn't buy either. Did find a nice blue short sleeve casual dress shirt, nice Under Armour shorts, and a Stripers cap I'm hoping to trade.
Couldn't believe I also found a pair of Bob Uecker nesting dolls, that I'd been wanting to add to my Uecker collection. Made from wood (not cheap plastic), given away by the Brewers in 2006 depicting Uke as a Brave, Cardinal, and Brewer. Just what I needed. Well on my way to being like Jimmy Fallon's character in Fever Pitch, with all my Braves crap and bobbleheads. My Uecker collection, best I can remember:
1962 Milwaukee Braves #8 Uecker jersey
Uecker talking alarm clock
Harry Doyle talking bobblehead
Uecker bobbhead in catcher's gear
Uecker statue bobblehead
Magic 8 Ball with Uecker wisdom
Uecker talking bottle opener
Catcher in the Wry, book written by Uecker
Uecker nesting dolls
Good column by Albert Mohler. Summary: Liberty depends on the existence of truth. Truth depends upon the existence of God. No God, no truth, no liberty, no human dignity, no human rights, no religious liberty.
Informative speech yesterday by Christian novelist Joel C Rosenberg at the State Department's conference on religious freedom, on the state of religious freedom in Israel and the Arab world.
I try to keep sunglasses in Ceil's car as well. Doesn't always work out.
Fixed two grilled ham & cheese sandwiches on the panini press. Watched "A Clear and Present Danger" with Harrison Ford as Dr. Jack Ryan.
Jim Thorpe's Carlisle Indians team beat an Army team led by young tailback/linebacker Dwight D Eisenhauer, but missed out on an undefeated season when, emotionally drained, lost the next week to Penn, a national power. Almost all of Carlisle's games were on the road, and Pop Warner scheduled tough, extra games for the extra money, then blasted his exhausted players when they didn't play well. While a creative offensive genius (Warner invented the single wing offense and unveiled it that year against army), the coach often pocketed ticket money.
When the story broke that Thorpe had played professional minor league baseball (as many college athletes did), Warner and the Carlisle headmaster turned against Thorpe, untruthfully stating they had no knowledge of Thorpe's two months of pro baseball. While many Olympic athletes often took appearance money and were amateurs in spirit only, while Thorpe was away someone went into his room at Carlisle and took his gold medals and trophies, and returned them to Stockholm. Public sentiment was on Thorpe's side, and it only gre when Thorpe refused to name the other college athletes on his pro baseball team. The silver medalist refused to accept the gold medal.
After that Thorpe signed with baseball's New York Giants, but only saw limited playing time. So Deion Sanders was not the first football star to appear in the World Series.
JIM THOME [SABR Bio] was the first player to hit thirty home runs for each of six consecutive seasons for the Cleveland Indians - 30+ HR 1996-2001 for CLE. He once hit a home run in each of seven consecutive games - 25-Jun through 03-Jul-2002. Ryan Howard broke his franchise record for most RBI by a Phillie in an expansion‑era season - 131 RBI for PHI in 2003. Howard broke it 4 X, 2006-09. He retired as an Oriole before catching up to Reggie. Finished in 2012 w/BAL w/2,548 K, 2nd only to Reggie Jackson's all-time record of 2,597.
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