Quote of the day
December 26, 2024
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
~Rickey Henderson

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
~Rickey Henderson

May you all have a warm and joyful holiday season! And remember, only 93 days remain until Opening Day!

I enjoyed watching the Woody Woodpecker cartoons as a kid. I think a lot of kids did back in the day. I came across this short episode that features Woody playing baseball, and it brought back some fun memories.
The Boston Rustlers (formerly the Doves) were purchased by New York politician James E. Gaffney and former player, now lawyer, John Montgomery Ward on December 13, 1911. The team would be called the Braves because of Gaffney’s Tammany Hall connections, which used an Indian chief as its symbol.

I don’t break bats, I wear ’em out.
~Josh Gibson
