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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 28th 1959 In another innovative promotion stage by team owner Bill Veeck, the White Sox host a three-ring circus that features acrobats, sword swallowers, and elephants between games of a Sunday doubleheader. The Pale Sox players don't clown around, sweeping...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 27th 1962 Pursued by all 20 major league teams, 17-year-old Bronx teenager Monroe High School standout Ed Kranepool, who sat as a guest on Opening Day in the owners' box with Mrs. Joan Payson and M. Donald Grant signs a contract with a $85,000 bonus as an...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 26th 1944 At the Polo Grounds, with over 50,000 fans looking on, the three New York major league teams face each other in a six-inning game (each club plays consecutive innings against the other two and then sits out an inning) to raise money for war bonds...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 25th 1985 After a line-drive foul ball drills Yankee batboy off the bat of Bronx Bomber catcher Butch Wynegar, the team mandates batboys near the on-deck circle must wear batting helmets. All major league teams will soon adopt the new rule of having batboys...
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    It was 102 in Brownsville yesterday Heat exhaustion in both case The one at 16 I passed out at my Uncle Jim's entrance to his trailer. He was a former Navy corpsman and dealt with the situation. The 12 years ago I was still cutting grass at 62 years old in 105 heat index. We had 1O cuts to...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 24th 1947 At Forbes Field, Jackie Robinson steals home in the Dodgers' 4-2 victory over the Pirates. It is the Brooklyn infielder's first thievery of the dish, something the rookie will accomplish 19 times during his ten-year career. 1955 Senator third...
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    actually twice now that I think about 1966....16 years old cleaning a Trailer Park lot for my Uncle Jim in Brownsville Texas 102 there now..
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    ttps://www.weather-average.com feels like 106 here now average temp 83 degrees on June 23rd If I was still cutting I would be dreading July & Aug >..and Rule #1 was until it get to a 100 no complaining just cut/edge/blow and go! If you work outside for a livin' ya hate seeing it start the...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 23rd 1950 Eleven home runs – a major league record – drive in all the runs scored in a 10 – 9 Tiger win over the Yankees before 51,000 Detroit fans. Detroit has four home runs in the 4th inning as Dizzy Trout, Jerry Priddy, Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers connect...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 22nd 1932 After refusing to follow suit, probably due to opposing players and fans harassing the Cardinals when they wore numerals on their sleeves in 1923, the National League finally permits teams to use uniform numbers to identify players. Some American...
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    Hope you are well Sir !
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    Donuts

    oh the toaster ....AGAIN !
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 21st 1952 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues president George Trautman bans the signing of women, preventing 24-year-old softball shortstop standout Eleanor Engle from playing with the Harrisburg Senators. Commissioner Ford Frick will go one...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 20th 1961 The voting ends in a 'worldwide election' to settle who is better, New York's Mickey Mantle or San Francisco's Willie Mays. Inspired by Bill Hoebler, a young baseball fan from Pittsburgh, the Sport magazine's poll puts the Yankee center fielder ahead...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 19th 1942 Joe DiMaggio strikes out three times in a game for the first and only time in a career that spans 1,787 contests. Indians' hurler Mel Harder does the deed in the Tribe's 5-4 victory over the Yankees at Cleveland Stadium. 2007 On the bus ride...
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    This Day in Baseball History

    Today in Baseball History June 18th 1961 Eddie Gaedel, the 3' 7" small person made famous by Browns' owner Bill Veeck, who employed him to lead off for one at-bat in a 1951 game, is found dead lying in his bed with bruises on the left side of his face after returning home from a Chicago...
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    The "kickserv is great guy and owns multiple Madjack T-shirts" Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

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    This Day in Baseball History

    adding 18⅓ innings of relief to my "recods to never be broken''.
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