When I was a kid, there was “don’t have the lead on Roger Staubach late in the game.” Nonsense.
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When I was a kid, there was Abner Doubleday saying "I should call this game we play with a stick 'baseball' and then I can invent chewing gum!"
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Doubleday. Great instincts, sloppy fielder.
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Couldn't chew gum and catch a fly ball at once!
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Why he had to invent them separately. More of a monotasker.
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He didn't even invent baseball. Abner Doubleday is the Elon Musk of the 1800's.
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But fired the first responsive Union volley at Fort Sumpter. I love that — knowing better — MLB has its Hall of Fame at its fictitious birthplace, Cooperstown.
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Didn't know that.
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Leaned that in the Ken Burns “Baseball” documentary. I love how our oldest (of the big 4) sport has an origin myth.
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You can't love the game without knowing the origin myth and the Black Sox scandal!
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And now a MLB team is going to play in Las Vegas. We’ve come full circle.
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Of course, in the early days, baseball cards came in packs of cigarettes. “Smoke up those Chesterfields, Pops! I’m trying to get Tris Speaker!”
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