Family Dinner

Saturday night we all gathered together at Will's house for Superica takeout.

Barney is always interested in my Saturday morning eggy-boy sandwich.

Auburn QB Bo Nix: not an English major.

Friday might supper: pasta with meat sauce, with kale.

Freddie getting lots of daddy time out on the field with his son.

Luther Williams Field, Macon GA.

Shoeless Hank Aaron

Just wondering: doesn't seem like 2020 is the best year for a white MVP.

The Memphis Grizzlies have worn MLK unis in the past.

_{SAM CRAWFORD [SABR Bio] with just 39 more hits, would have become the fourth player to join the 3,000-hit club. Crawford retired in 1917 with 2961 hits. In his final season, he was mostly used as a pinch hitter. He got the final hit of his career on July 17, a double, then appeared in 11 more games, with 13 plate appearances, without a hit.  Had he managed to get those additional hits, he would have joined Cap Anson, Nap Lajoie and Honus Wagner in the nascent 3,000-hit club. The last player to come within even half of one of his career batting records was Roberto Clemente.}

_{Crawford’s 309 triples is often in discussions of baseball’s most unbreakable records.  Ty Cobb is second with 295 and Cobb is the last player to have more than 200.  The closest since World War II was Paul Waner’s 191, then Stan Musial’s 177. Since Clemente’s 166, the most career triples has been Willie Wilson’s 147—not even halfway there.  The current active leader is Dexter Fowler: 82.}  

He remembers legendary film producer Darryl Zanuck as a youngster running around their hometown, but he’s the one that’s forever associated with that town.- From Lawrence Ritter’s The Glory of Their Times: “I remember when Darryl Zanuck was a little towheaded kid running around the streets.  His mother and father owned the hotel there in Wahoo, Nebraska.”  Other tidbits from that book’s interview: his favorite writer was Balzac and he thought Honus Wagner was a better player than teammate Ty Cobb.” Crawford’s distinctive nickname “Wahoo” pays homage to his hometown roots.