The Daily Dose/August 20, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s quest to do nothing is neither arduous nor unrewarded. Today’s Diary.
I read all day, plopping into the chair – with the cat joining me off and on throughout – at 0530 and only leaving it for the most pressing emergencies…The only thing keeping this from completely idyllic was the fact the Interstate south of here is closed again and Main Street sounded like a truck stop…Not matter, it was a triumphant day of rest.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1920 – WWJ Detroit becomes the first commercial radio station in the US. broadcasting the Detroit News Radiophone over amateur station 8MK. The letters WWJ have no special significance but were issued after its initial call sign WBL proved to be difficult for listeners to understand and it has been at 950 on the AM dial since 1941. It is still a news station today and also airs the Detroit Pistons and Michigan Wolverines football.
In 1919 – Joe Wilhoit of the Wichita Jobbers of the Class A Western League has his professional baseball record hitting streak ended in a 5-2 win over the Tulsa Oilers. Wilhoit went 0-3 with a walk to snap a 69-game streak, a record that still stands. Wilhoit had 151 hits in 299 at-bats, a .505 average, figures taken from the Wichita Beacon newspaper and which differ from other sources. Wilhoit would play for four major league teams between 1916-19 and had a career batting average of .257.
In 1949 – Some Enchanted Evening by Perry Como is at #1 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart – one of several predecessors to the Hot 100 – for the fourth of five consecutive weeks. Six other versions of the song charted 1949 – including versions by Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra – with five reaching the Top 10. The song was written by the legendary team of Rogers and Hammerstein and was from the musical South Pacific. It was the fifth of eleven #1 songs for Como on a Billboard pop chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man. Do not be like an oyster who rests on the sea bottom waiting for the good things to come by. Search for them. Find them.
Louis L’Amour
The Lonesome Gods
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The 1979 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus was won by the Bee Gees for their performance on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Today’s Stumper
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Who is the only other professional baseball player with a hitting streak of at least 60 games? – Answer next time!
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