The Daily Dose/March 3, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Stanko stops by the VSO to talk about the post’s summer baseball team. Today’s Diary.
Baseball is a tuff go up here…There’s really only five playable days a year which accounts for the fact baseball is the 27th most popular sport, right behind cribbage-snowboarding…We seldom have more than a dozen players which makes it tuff to field a team when you take into consideration family vacations and camps for other sports and whatnot.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1991 – The beating of Rodney King by members of the Los Angeles Police Department is videotaped by a nearby resident near the Pacoima section of Los Angeles. King had been pulled over after fleeing a CHP unit that tried to pull him over for speeding. Four officers were tried with three acquitted with the jury unable to reach a verdict on the fourth. This was not the verdict some in Los Angeles were looking for and within a few hours rioting began that lasted six days and killed 63 people.
In 1920 – The Montreal Canadiens establish a new NHL record for most goals in a game defeating the Quebec Bulldogs 16-3. The Canadiens got four goals in the first period, seven in the second and five in third, with Newsy Lalonde and Harry Cameron each scoring four times. The Canadiens broke the record of 14 goals they had established on January 10 against Toronto. The record still stands.
In 1961 – Leroy Van Dyke is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot C&W Sides chart – for the 19th and final non-consecutive week with Walk On By. The song had first gone to #1 on Sept 25, 1960, spent a total of 37 weeks on the country chart and remains the most weeks spent at #1 on a major Billboard singles chart for an act’s only #1 song by an act who is no longer charting. Bebe Rexha, who spent 50 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s country chart with Meant To Be (2017-18) will break this record if she does not produce another #1 hit.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Since [priests] were providing the first necessity of life – a consolatory hope – their industry flourished even when others decayed; their wealth grew from century to century, while the poverty of the people remained.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol. I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
Phil Esposito had six seasons of 100 or more points. His high was 152 points in 1970-71.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What NHL team holds the record for most goals scored in a game this century? – Answer next time!
