Base Ball

Ceil brought back a few framed items from Corrine's house in Catarrh, including one of her ancestor's Belmont base ball team from the 1800's. I'll hang it in my office.

Finally: got the new curtain hung in the bedroom. Also a shower curtain. Dresser should be delivering soon. Working on the bedside tables, window shades, and the hanging of framed pictures. 

My humble blog recently passed 4 million views. This is my 21st year posting blogs. Not super impressive when you do the math, but it's a mark to be noted nevertheless.

When I worked, I had several ways to take notes and make to do lists: use an email, a sticky note, a small notepad, or a regular sized piece of paper (usually folded). When I retired, I made sure to have several of these possibilities available. At some point, I realized I needed to have 3x5 notecards on hand. For one reason to enter the occasional mail in sweepstakes. So I bought me a stack at Dollar Tree. Now I've started using the 3x5 cards for my to do lists. Now I am remembering how I receive so many 3x5 cards from Reid. 

I was happy to have a restful Sunday. I'm trying to get C to be more active, so I waited around for her to get ready to go to the gym. Didn't leave the house until 10:15. She wanted to do the treadmill and sauna, so that's what we did. She'd wanted to go to Whole Foods, but she didn't want to go in her yoga pants. 

Got home, and I left out to run some errands. Today is 6/8 and Sonny BBQ was having a $6.80 special: a pulled pork BBQ sandwich, fries and a drink. Came out quick and hot, before my drink had arrived. Crinkle fries were piping hot, but tasted undercooked. The busy 68 year old waiter brought me a glass of weak root beer instead of Coke Zero, but root beer is good every now and then. Sandwich was good. A little adventure.

Went to the AT&T store to get my phone fixed, but they said there were lots of hoops I had to go through, that I was pretty sure had spent hours getting fixed already. Drives me crazy.   

 

Question of the day: who is your favorite pass rusher? Claude Humphrey and John Zook.

MEL OTT  [SABR Bio] led his team in home runs for 18 straight seasons, yet is only third on his franchise’s career home run list. Ott had more homers than any other Giants hitter every season from 1928-45.  His total of 511 dingers in a Giants uniform was later passed by Willie Mays (646) and Barry Bonds (586). Ott tied Gavvy Cravath’s record for National League home run titles, though he needed more than twice as many home runs to do it. Ott led the Senior Circuit in roundtrippers six times, in 1932, 1934, 1936-38, and 1942. In those six seasons, he hit a total of 203 home runs. Cravath also led the league six times, from 1913-15 and 1917-19, but only hit 94 homers combined in those six seasons. Their record would be broken by Ralph Kiner, who won seven consecutive NL home run titles from 1946-52. Kiner was eventually eclipsed by Mike Schmidt, who led the NL in home runs eight times. Ott’s first at-bat for the Giants came less than two months after his 17th birthday.  He was by 20 months the junior of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Rufus Meadows, the 2nd youngest player to take the field in 1926. When Braves outfielder Bill Dunlap made his big league debut, it marked the first time in four seasons that someone younger than Ott was on a National League roster.

Denison: how to speak the truth in love.

 Max Lucado: “I choose kindness. I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me.” 

    Quote for the day: “Compassion is born when we discover in the center of our own existence not only that God is God and man is man, but also that our neighbor is really our fellow man.” —Henri J. M. Nouwen