"No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle.
No man.
You're not talking about ordinary power.
Dave Kingman has power.
Willie Mays had power.
Then, when you're talking about Mickey Mantle, it's an altogether different level.
Separates the men from the boys."
Billy Martin.
Despite a wind blowing in at Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle crushes a Jim Bunning pitch down the right field line over the roof onto Trumbull Avenue, some 500 feet away.
The ball landed at Brooks Lumber and a Brooks employee, saw exactly where the ball landed.
Robert Schiewe calculated the distance through Schiewe's use of the Pythagorean Theorem.
The result was a prodigious 643 feet home run.
This was not an exhibition game.
Literally nobody showed up. 1958.
Europe ‘72 forever 🇬🇧
On 5/26/72, the Grateful Dead performed the final night of their Europe ‘72 tour at the intimate Lyceum Strand Theater to a crowd of over 2,000 devoted Heads in central London. Three out of four shows witnessed a never before seen opening performance of “Promised Land,” with “Cold Rain and Snow” stealing the opening spot on the 24th. The subsequent sets on each night were so hot that more than half of the ‘Europe '72’ album was recorded across this run alone.
Photos by Mary Anne Mayer
So ABC is fine with Jimmy Kimmel joking about President Trump’s death?
👌🏻Good to know.
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If ABC won’t hold him accountable, customers will.
Virginia’s gerrymandering was called “fairness”.
Chris Murphy was being “sarcastic”.
Joe Biden has a “stutter”.
Gavin Newsom is suddenly “dyslexic”.
Ilhan Omar made an “accounting error”.
Eric Swalwell was “flirty”.
SPLC was paying “informants”.
All they do is lie.
🚨 OMG...President Trump just put a reporter in her place.
REPORTER: Are you ready to go to war with Chicago?
TRUMP: When you say that, darling, that's fake news. Listen. Be QUIET. Listen. You don't listen, you never listen. That's why you're second rate. We're not going to war...we're gonna clean cities up so they don't kill 5 people every weekend. That's not war - that's COMMON SENSE.
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