Quote of the day
We don’t have rings on our fingers. So I need to be better. Period.
~Bobby Witt, Jr.

We don’t have rings on our fingers. So I need to be better. Period.
~Bobby Witt, Jr.

To all my American readers, I hope you all have a restful holiday surrounded by people you love.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died on November 25, 1944 at Chicago’s St. Luke’s Hospital, just five days after his 78th birthday. Two weeks after his death, Landis was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special committee vote. This made him just the second person to have the five-year waiting period waived, after Lou Gehrig.

[H]e’s like a mythical character to me, because it’s such a long time ago and he was God to baseball. I shouldn’t be compared to him, at least not right now.
~Shohei Ohtani on Babe Ruth

Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers on their second consecutive World Series championship! Regardless of how you might feel about the Dodgers, this Series was undeniably an exciting one, full of drama and emotional roller coasters. And congratulations to Yoshinobu Yamamoto on being named World Series MVP!
