The National Pastime
Rich Galen Wednesday March 29, 2006
- "� Alexandria Times ...": Here's a link to the Alexandria Times website. The paper was first published in 1797.
- "� Grantland Rice ...": The godfather of sportswriters is famous for two of the best known quotes in sports history, first of the Notre Dame football team:
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.
And of mortality:
For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks - not that you won or lost -
But how you played the Game."
- "� Alfonso Soriano ...": Soriano was the second baseman for the Texas Rangers who was traded to the Washington Nationals. The Nationals already have a second baseman and wanted Soriano to play left field. Soriano said he was a second baseman, not a left fielder and refused to take the field the first day he was pencilled in.
After some to-ing and fro-ing Soriano saw the wisdom - and the $10 million for the 2006 which he would have forfeited - and now is the starting left fielder for the Washington Nats.
Mullfoto of the Day
Here's a slightly altered version of my Washington Nationals Credential which I briefly removed for the purposes of of this photo.
Catchy Caption of the Day
Wait. What? How ...?
(AFP/Jorge Padeiro)
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