Lots of news, that's for sure. Events are beginning to develop as the snowball runs downhill faster and faster.
But I think my favorite piece of the day is John Kienan's description of the All-Star game over on the baseball thread.
Terry Moore “got a piece” of one of the Feller pitches and hit it about a hundred yards – fifty yard up and fifty down. J. Cronin of Boston was waiting for it. He didn’t mind waiting. It was a nice day and he had nothing more important to do.
Is is possible to be nostalgic for a time before you were born?
Unfortunately, I'm old enough to have my share of nostalgia, but yeah, it's possible. I was always a pitcher growing up, and I once asked my Dad who threw the fastest fastball ever and he told me, "Bob Feller". My Dad told me that he had seen a "Newsreel Short" at the movies when he was a kid that showed Bob Feller throwing a baseball faster than a motorcycle that was traveling at 110 MPH. (There were no "radar guns" back then.) After that, Feller was my baseball hero.