…Americans in history: It stinks. 80% of the names of the top 23 have no business on that list and as is true with all such lists, too much attention is paid to contemporaries.
But lists generate hits, hey I clicked on it.
…Americans in history: It stinks. 80% of the names of the top 23 have no business on that list and as is true with all such lists, too much attention is paid to contemporaries.
But lists generate hits, hey I clicked on it.
The “official” story as to why Biden was chosen for VP was that Michelle Obama didn’t want Hillery Clinton on the ticket and thanks to John McCain’s implosion (despite Sarah Palin’s best efforts) it turns out she wasn’t needed.
Now the talk is again of putting Clinton on the ticket in 2012 and Glenn Reynolds gives three reasons against. Can anyone explain why #3 would have been any less valid in 2008.
3. If Hillary is going to be one heartbeat away from the Oval Office, would you want that to be your heartbeat?
I got no answer to that one.
Baseball Musings announced the death of Pirates Announcer Nellie King. I wasn’t familiar with the man but something in the post on his death struck me.
He pitched two outstanding seasons in 1955 and 1956, and then was out of baseball after the 1957 season.
I looked at his stars from baseball reference.com and his stats looked ok.
What struck me was the 4 seasons and out. If he came up today he might have made enough to live pretty comfortably and with current sports medicine the injury (of which I have no details about) might have only shelved him for a season or less.
Then again the pirates would have been deprived of a fine announcer.
Pretty soon we will run out of players who played under the old reserve clause and there will be nobody with actual baseball experience to remind young ballplayers just how lucky they are to have been born after 1970.