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« Reply #3724 on: July 24, 2024, 09:29:59 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on July 24, 2024, 11:41:48 AM
On July 24 in Baseball History...

1983 - In the memorable Pine Tar Game at Yankee Stadium, George Brett hits an apparent 2-run home run off Rich Gossage to give the Royals a 5-4 lead with two outs in the ninth inning. But Yankees manager Billy Martin points out that the pine tar on Brett's bat handle exceeds the seventeen inches allowed in the rules. As a result, Brett is called out for illegally batting the ball, giving New York a 4-3 victory. The Royals immediately protest, and American League President Lee MacPhail overrules his umpires for the first time saying that, while the rules should certainly be rewritten and clarified, the home run will stand and the game will be resumed from that point on August 18.



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« Reply #3725 on: July 24, 2024, 09:44:57 PM »
Ha Billy was a drunk how could he see it or even know such an obscure rule existed. No one had ever heard of it that I knew of
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« Reply #3726 on: July 24, 2024, 10:07:00 PM »
drunks are smart folks

as far as you know
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« Reply #3727 on: July 24, 2024, 10:30:09 PM »
More old drunks than there are old doctors
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« Reply #3728 on: July 25, 2024, 08:09:59 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Svetlana Savitskaya Becomes the First Woman to Perform a Spacewalk (1984)
Savitskaya is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She logged nearly 20 days in space during her career, including three and a half hours spent outside the Salyut 7 space station in 1984, when she became the first woman to perform a spacewalk. Before becoming a cosmonaut, she was a test and sport pilot and a parachutist.
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« Reply #3729 on: July 25, 2024, 09:32:21 AM »
June 28, 1951 marked the CBS debut of “The Amos 'n' Andy Show,” Television’s first Black sitcom.

Pictured are the show’s stars: (1951–53). Spencer Williams (Andy), Tim Moore (Kingfish), and Alvin Childress (Amos)

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« Reply #3730 on: July 25, 2024, 11:31:56 AM »


Little misconception that people don't realize is that SPAM was not inveted for WWII as many claim.. It was actually invented in 1937 by Hormel. Hormel was the first ever to can meat on a national level and they did so with canned ham.  In the years before 1937 it was a premium product, but the great depression pretty much crippled that business for them.  They also were the first to guarantee wages for employees after the riots on their offices on November 11th 1933. 5 years before federal minimum wage was established.  The canned ham they made was from the premium meat on the hind legs of the pig, they decided to utilize the shoulder butt from the front legs of the hog.  This was extremely cheap, and allowed them to keep their business alive. 
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« Reply #3731 on: July 25, 2024, 05:08:44 PM »
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« Reply #3732 on: July 26, 2024, 07:32:31 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Battle of Edgecote Moor (1469)
The Battle of Edgecote Moor was an important turning point in the series of dynastic civil wars for the English throne known as the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485). The battle pitted the forces of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, against those of King Edward IV. Warwick had once been loyal to Edward and had even helped put him on the throne, but Edward began to resent him and suppress his influence. Angered, Warwick allied with Edward's brother, George, and rose in rebellion.
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« Reply #3733 on: July 26, 2024, 07:36:10 AM »
“The French Army is stronger than ever before in its history,” declared Gen. Maxime Weygand, the retired chief of staff. “Its equipment is the best, its fortifications are first rate, its morale is excellent, and it has an outstanding high command. Nobody wants war but if we are forced to win a new victory then we will win it.”
The military editor of The New York Times, Hanson W. Baldwin, was of a similar opinion. “The French army has long been called by experts the ‘best in the world,’ and its finest divisions undoubtedly are unmatched,” he said.
The French were ahead of the Germans, or nearly so, in almost every category of military power. They had more tanks, more artillery, more men under arms, and about the same number of combat airplanes.
The entire French-German border, from Basel in Switzerland to the Longwy on the Luxembourg frontier, was protected by the Maginot Line, a continuous string of linked concrete fortifications, mine fields, barriers, ditches, and prepared fields of fire.
With reduced requirement for mobile forces on that front, the French could allocate more of their manpower to the Belgian border on the north, where a German attack, if there was one, was expected to come. The lowest priority for defense were the approaches from the Ardennes Forest—regarded as “impenetrable”—between the Maginot Line and Belgium.


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« Reply #3734 on: July 26, 2024, 01:08:03 PM »
This Day in History:

The U.S. Postal Service was established by the Second Continental Congress, and Benjamin Franklin was named the first postmaster general.

This Day in Baseball History:

July 26, 1911
Christy Mathewson wins his 21st straight game against the Cincinnati Reds, 5 – 3

July 26, 1916
Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning.

July 26, 1928
Yankees score 11 in the 12th to break a 1-1 game wide open and Bob Meusel hits for the Cycle

July 26, 1933
Future Yankees superstar Joe DiMaggio sees his 61-game hitting streak come to an end(against the Indians at old Municipal Stadium 😎)

July 26, 1992
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter, reaching that mark for a record 23rd year in a row. He subdues the Orioles, 6 – 2, and passes Phil Niekro as number 12 on the all-time win list with 319. Juan Gonzalez helps with a 450-foot homer to center field, the longest yet at Camden Yards.

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