unfortunately one of the sons became a federal judge, and father lived long enough to see this:
A Kentucky clerk was sent to jail Thursday after a judge found her in contempt of court for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses to gay couples.
Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, was found in contempt of court on Thursday morning by Judge David Bunning. Davis has said granting marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples would “violate God’s definition of marriage” and infringe on her personal beliefs as an Apostolic Christian.
When he was a Tiger, they had a very good starting rotation-Jim Bunning, Frank Lary and Don Mossi.
Jim himself was an early target of the turtle:
Like his eventual successor in the Senate (Rand Paul), Bunning was wary of the Federal Reserve and its powers. When Ben Bernanke’s nomination to lead the Fed came before the Senate, Bunning used the occasion to denounce both Bernanke and the Fed itself. “I will do everything I can to stop your nomination and drag out the process as long as possible,” Bunning said. “We must put an end to your and the Fed’s failures, and there is no better time than now.”
He did not seek a third term in 2010. Bunning’s retirement was not entirely voluntary; during his final years in the Senate, he battled with the GOP leadership, including his home-state colleague, Mitch McConnell. In July 2009, when he announced he was not running again, he was notably critical of his party: “Over the past year, some of the leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate have done everything in their power to dry up my fundraising.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/jim-bunning-dies-121196
I remember watching it on black and white teevee.
Not as remarkable as a perfect game but Nick Castellanos hit a grand slam today.
If I remember correctly, bunning pitched sidearm.
Bunning was the first National League pitcher to pitch a perfect game. (Brooklyn was on the losing side of a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.)