Babe Ruth at his father’s bar. Ruth used part of his World Series bonus from the Boston Red Sox in 1915 to purchase the bar for his father. He worked there full-time during the off-season before returning to baseball in Boston. His father later died in 1918 from injuries sustained while breaking up a fight outside the same bar.
Tony Gwynn had more seasons batting over .360 (7) than seasons striking out 40+ times (0).
In a sport where even Hall of Famers routinely strike out 80–150 times a year, he never reached 41 strikeouts in any season of his career. That's the kind of stat that sounds impossible today
Block Drug Store on East 6th Street, 101 Second Avenue, East Village, New York City in 1975.
The Iconic bright neon sign drug store has been there since 1885.
Photo by John Rosenthal.
Today in 1973, the greatest horse race in history was run.
Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to become the Triple Crown winner and set a world record time that has never been beaten!
🎥: CBS Broadcast
At 42 years old, Nolan Ryan struck out 301 batters in 239 innings. That is an 11.3 strikeouts per 9 innings. The league wide average that year was 5.6. He doubled the league average at 42 years old
America is back fighting a war we already won because Iran shot down an Apache helicopter with a military we already destroyed, and it's all over nukes they never had and a strait that was wide open.
Is that about right?