The Daily Dose/August 2, 2019
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience…
YEAH, THIS IS IMPORTANT: Long-time readers of the Daily Dose know that regardless of the format, there has always been an On This Date segment of some sort. We’ve always enjoyed them, even when we were kids, and our experience is if we like something our reader(s) probably will, too,so we’ve always included one.
Oh Jesus H: When this feature was longer we’d stick as many entries as we could in, but now we are content with three entries: a general history tidbit, a sports highlight, plus an entry chronicling a #1 song from a Billboard chart. We take great care in making sure every entry is accurate, and it is not unheard of to dive in and find out an entry is wrong, meaning we have to find another one.
Whoops, Our Bad: So it is rare when we have to go back an edit an entry, but we had to this week with our July 31 entry about John Grimes establishing a major league record by hitting six batters in an 1897 game.
Fly In The Ointment: The problem was we write in a variety of places and at a variety of times and when we wrote this item we did not have either of our major league baseball record books handy. Our research, though, was sufficient, we thought, to make us certain that Grimes had not only accomplished the feat but had also established the record in the first game of a doubleheader.
Dry, Technical Matter: As soon as we were able to, we checked our record book and while Grimes had indeed hit six batters in that 1897 game, he had only tied the record that had been established by Ed Knouff of the Baltimore Orioles of the then-major American Association in 1887.
Insert Sad Face Emoji Here: We were disappointed. We take care and pride in providing an accurate column and we failed with this entry. It has been amended and here is the correct entry:
In 1897 – John Grimes of the St Louis Browns ties the major league record by hitting six batters in an 11-6 loss to the Louisville Colonels in the first game of a doubleheader. It was the second of his three major league appearances for Grimes, whose final game came on August 2, a 9-5 loss to the Chicago Colts, now known as the Cubs. Though History is not entirely clear on the matter, Grimes, 28 at the time, might well have been on leave from what would turn out to be a 30-year career in the US Army, where he retired as a captain after seeing action in both the Spanish-American and First World wars. Grimes tied the record established by Ed Knouff of the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association in 1887.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: The Wife joins (another) co-op. Today’s Diary.
The Wife – as she is wont to do from time to time – joined another goddamned co-op recently, which will supply us with an assortment of healthy, evidently bamboo-based stuff…Current marching orders are to never again buy toilet paper, dish soap, toothpaste and maybe even ink for all I know because those will all be supplied now at who-knows-how-much per month…I’m not entirely sure I want to dry a bamboo-based toothpaste, but ol’ Sparrow is nothing if not flexible.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
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On This Date
In 1923 -President of the United States Warren G Harding dies at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, after a period of ill health. Harding died of cardiac arrest, though at the time it was attributed to cerebral hemorrhage because cardiac arrest wasn’t well understood at the time. Though his presidency is not highly regarded by History, Harding was well-liked and millions of people lined the train route that took his body to Washington. He was replaced by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.
In 1919 – Fred Luderus of the Philadelphia Phillies established a new major league record by playing in 479th consecutive game as the Phillies sweep a doubleheader from the Chicago Cubs. Luderus – pronounced lu-DARE-us – broke the record of 478 that had been set the previous year by Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia A’s. The record stood until 1927 when it was broken by Eddie Brown of the Boston Braves and is now held by Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles with 2,632.
In 1975 – The Eagles are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with One of These Nights. The song would spend one week at the top and also made the Top 10 in the Netherlands, Belgium and New Zealand and was Billboard’s ninth biggest song of the year. It was the second of five number one songs for the group and their third of ten Top 10 hits.
Quotebook
…the inability of men to grasp an obvious truth is a constant in political life.
Gore Vidal
Lincoln
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
There were 600 entries on Billboard’s 60th anniversary Hot 100 chart. At #1 was The Twist by Chubby Checker, still the only song to go to #1 in seperate chart appearances. At #600 was Take on Me by A-Ha.
Today’s Stumper
How many combined weeks have the Eagles spent at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100? – Answer next time!
