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
Once, a couple came up to Yogi Berra at his Museum and asked him to:
"Make up a Yogi-ism."
“If I could just make ’em up on the spot, I’d be famous.”
Yogi Berra.
Cedric Maxwell on Pistol Pete Maravich and a rookie named Larry Bird:
“We come to a timeout and Pete says ‘Larry, they’re double-teaming you. You can’t force up those kind of shots.’
Larry looks up and goes ‘If you were any damn good, they wouldn’t be double-teaming me.'”
The Bluenose was a celebrated racing ship that became a symbol of Canada. Nicknamed the Queen of the North Atlantic, she is featured on both the Canadian dime and Nova Scotia licence plates.
At her helm, was Angus Walters and this is his story.
📸 Nova Scotia Archives
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Leonard Nimoy performing “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" from his 1968 album 'Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy' on the short lived variety show Malibu U, 1967.