Richard Doran

long suffering fan of the @Guardians @Browns and devoted @BurnleyOfficial supporter#Noles

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

How about it @MLB

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I’ve never felt Larry Doby gets nearly enough credit for being the first Black player in the American League. This weekend while we’re honoring Jackie, let’s also take some time to remember Larry Doby and his huge contribution to the game.

[Vince Guerrieri @vinceguerrieri]

Today's the 52nd anniversary of Cleveland's notorious ten-cent beer night. What better time than now to re-up my @ClevelandMag oral history. (I have another oral history in the works for another Cleveland milestone this fall.) https://t.co/0QfZxtb3Jk

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@himmybutler_iv @TalkinBaseball_ Final score and series results to date please. LMAOO

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

"How's that for Tonight Show?" -Yankees broadcaster Paul O'Neill

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukrainian attack drones successfully attacked Russia's Kronstadt naval base this morning, hitting and heavily damaging the Steregushchy-class corvette Boikiy in drydock.

The Boikiy was one of the most capable surface combatants in the Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet.

[MLB @MLB]

Did J-Ram and the @CleGuardians pick up the W in The Bronx?

👍

[Nacho Montes de Oca @nachomdeo]

La humillación que Putin quiso evitar en Moscú, le llega hoy en su ciudad natal, San Peterburgo ante la presencia de delegaciones de 76 países y territorios que acuden a su Foro Económico Internacional. La terminal petrolera de la ciudad arde alcanzada por drones ucranianos

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@RaleighReporter You might win a seat on the Carboro town commission but without racing or basketball knowledge I think that is your limit.

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@Spencito_ This is the leader we saw at @FSUFootball the year they went 12-0 and got screwed by ESPN.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

A humiliating day for Putin, as things at the St Petersburg Economic Forum start off with a bang.

Despite Putin flying in all the American influencers, Ukraine just blew things up.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Ukraine in response to Russias massive attack yesterday has launched a massive drone attack toward Moscow and other regions.

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

Nothing cleanses the soul like thrashing the New York Yankees.

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@AOAJordan Yes.

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

As one who was born and raised in NE Ohio and moved to Florida at 18 I agree wholeheartedly with this point.

[Cavaliers Nation @WeAreCavsNation]

Darius Garland thinks it would be hard for LeBron to go from L.A. to Cleveland

“Sunny days, 75 every day. … It’s 40 there now.” 😬

(via @ballinthefampod)

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

This is an incredible story.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@steveschale It’s C for me. Sam Marco , St Johns Center and the Beaches plus Riverside and the museum. I lived in D. It’s a suburban wasteland.

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@S_U_Network It’s not close. It’s Deion Sanders.

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@JeffJacksonNC please give them a call and explain the law to them.

[Joe Bruno @JoeBrunoWSOC9]

Yikes: A spokesperson for the city of Charlotte says the city will not be releasing the names of the applicants for Charlotte Mayor unless Charlotte City Council instructs otherwise. #ncpol #CLTCC @wsoctv

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

@ProfRobAnderson Bonner v. City of Pritchard !

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

No

[Ari Wasserman @AriWasserman]

Has an individual player nuked a franchise more in the history of sports than Deshaun Watson in Cleveland?

[Richard Doran @DoranLex]

What not hold a special election to fill the seat ? Appointing a mayor on Mechlenburg doesn’t seem vetted #America250 to me.

[City of Charlotte @CLTgov]

The City of Charlotte is currently accepting applications for the mayoral seat vacancy.

Interested candidates must meet eligibility requirements:
- Be a registered voter in Mecklenburg County
- Be at least 21 years of age
- Be a registered Democrat
- Reside within the corporate boundaries of the city
- Be qualified to vote in City Council elections

Learn more and apply by 5 p.m. on June 9 at https://t.co/SNYrRs66l9.