The Daily Dose/July 21, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is in time out.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has a rather trying morning. Today’s Diary.
By this time we’re past peeved and are ready to take hostages…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1937 – The US Senate votes down President Franklin D Roosevelt’s plan to add up to six supreme court justices, voting 70-20 to send the bill back to committee. Roosevelt had come up with the bill following repeated defeats at the supreme court of assorted New Deal proposals. After more than twelve years in office, Roosevelt would end up appointing eight of the nine justices anyway. The court had been fixed at eight justices and a chief justice since 1869.
In 1956 – Jim Gilliam of the Brooklyn Dodgers ties the major league record for most assists in a game by a second baseman in a 13-6 loss to the St Louis Cardinals. Gilliam had 12 assists, tying the mark done twice previously, by Monte Ward (1892) and Frankie Frisch (1929), and the mark has been tied several times since and still stands. The extra-inning game record is 15, by Lave Cross in a 12-inning, 1897 game. Gilliam also had two putouts, went 2-for-4 at the plate, and scored a run.
In 1973 – Jim Croce is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of two consecutive weeks with Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown. It was the fourth of eight Top 40 hits for Croce, his second of four Top 10 hits, and his first of two #1s (Time In A Bottle, two weeks, 1973-74). The song also went to #1 in Canada and was Billboard’s 2nd-biggest song of the year. The song was inspired by someone Croce knew in the army, and Croce would die in September in a plane crash in Louisiana.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I had profited in so many ways by the voyage…at least ten years younger than the day I felled the first tree for the construction of the Spray.
Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone Around the World
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The British Open has been played at 13 different courses over the years. The Old Course at St Andrews has hosted the most, 30, and Prince’s Golf Club in Sandwich, England is the only course to host one British Open, in 1932.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many justices did the original US supreme court have? – Answer next time!
