Sunday

The leaves between the 4th and 5th holes at Candler Park are huge. This isn't even one of the biggest leaves. On the 3rd hole my ball settled between four trees, completely blocking my path to the green.

Someone lost their cart.

I recently joined "The L Club" and stumbled across this photo of star Poets RB Isaac Jackson, who went on to play at Kansas State. The Jacksons grew up around the corner on Old Lundy. His younger brother Derry was in my grade at Rosa Taylor, but drowned in junior high.

CY YOUNG [SABR Bio]  was the first to pitch a no hitter in both the NL and AL, on 18-Sep-1897 for CLV; 05-May-1904 for BOS; and 30-Jun-1908 for BOS. He was the first pitcher with double digit shutouts in one season, withe ten in 1904. Young was born and raised in tiny Gilmore Ohio, an agrarian hamlet 100 miles south of Cleveland. He stayed in shape by hiking, hunting, and chopping wood.

MASH successfully transitioned from Henry Blake, Trapper John, Frank Burns, and Radar to Sherman Potter, BJ Hunnicutt, and Charles Emerson Winchester.

ROGERS HORNSBY [SABR Bio] passed away from a heart attack 05-Jan-1963 at age 66, after entering the hospital for eye surgery. The Mets’ first year of play was 1962, and has a 40-120-1 record. Hornsby was their hitting instructor. The 1916 PHA (.235) and 1935 BSN (.248) had worse winning percentages than the Mets’ .250., but no Modern Era team lost 120 games in a single season. Hornsby was from Winters, Texas, with a population of just over 200 when he was born in 1896. Hint: #1 He was the first 20th century NL player to collect more RBI in a season than the number of games he played. In 1925 he played 138 games for the Cardinals and led the majors with 143 RBI. Nobody with at least 300 career home runs has a higher lifetime batting average. Hornsby had 301 homers and a career average of .358.

STEVE CARLTON   [SABR Bio] had a WAR of 90.2 and a W/L record of 329-244. Inducted into the HOF in 1994 with 96% of the vote. He was traded for Rick Wise in February 1972 giving the Phillies a future Hall of Famer who would be in the top five in the Cy Young Award voting six times. In exchange the Cardinals received a journeyman would receive Cy Young votes only once, for 8th place. Calton totaled 55 shutouts and recorded saves 20 years apart, on 16-Apr-1967 & 09-Apr-1987.