West Coast

Was last night’s Washington victory over Oregon a preview on the Heisman vote? Or will Bo Nix get the sympathy vote? Not from me.

Reading John Grisham’s The Firm. Mitch’s wife Abby teaches at a private school in Memphis – St Andrew or St Something. Is that the school B goes to?

Friday: worked well past 6 pm trying to get stuff done. The rush hour drive from Duluth to SE Atlanta was stressful, but not as horrendous as I’d feared. Took Peachtree Industrial south to 285, then west around to 20 east, to MLK.

Shivonne knows her ABCs and is being potty trained. After she went to bed I took a nap on the couch. Got home at 1130.

Stopped by Wendys on the way to work this morning.

CHRISTY MATHEWSON   [SABR Bio] was the first person posthumously elected to the Hall of Fame. Mathewson was pitching for NY Giants. He finished his career with a complete game win with the Reds on 04-Sep-1916(2).  While serving in the U.S. Army in France in WWI, Mathewson was accidentally gassed during a training exercise.  He spent the next 7 years battling tuberculosis and died 07-Oct-1925. The first Hall of Fame ballot was in 1936 when he was elected as part of the inaugural class. A teenager at Bucknell University, he was class president, played on the school's basketball & baseball teams, and was a drop-kicker on their football team. He was selected as a Walter Camp All-American in 1900. Of him it was said “He talks like a Harvard graduate, looks like an actor, acts like a businessman and impresses you as an all-around gentleman.” Quote is from Homer Croy, a Grantland Rice contemporary. No National League pitcher had a season with more wins in the Modern Era. He won 37 with a 1.43 ERA to lead the NL in 1908. He led MLB in shutouts 1902, 1905, 1907, and 1908 (8, 8, 8, 11).