Wednesday, December 12, 2012
2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!
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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!
The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.
Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...
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1. ajnrules posted on January 16, 2013 at 10:00 PM # hit 0 | hit 0That's worth noting for the fact that in the first decade of HoF inductions, previous inductees were notorious for not attending those ceremonies. The Sporting News ran several articles that detailed and complained about this, and it's nice to know that Cobb was one of the exceptions.
He bought a book containing 41 and 2/3 stamps?
weirdest part of Ken Burns Baseball is the footage of Cobb throwing out the first pitch for the Los Angeles Angels' (not of Anaheim, then) first AL game in 1961; he died a few months later...
May be that outside the post office stamp vendors could do a markup.
or he got 2 cents back as change?
Well, the Hall of Fame will be late to the Clemens and Bonds inductions, so, I guess mistakes are made on both sides.
Exactly. Ever tried to "plunk down" a dime? Can't be done, least plunkable coin known to humans. If you want a good plunk, it's gotta be a quarter, assuming no half-dollar available, even if that means getting a nickel back.
True, nickels plunk a lot better than dimes but if you plunk down 4 nickels there's too high a chance one is gonna get away, end up on the floor, then you're bending over to pick it up and all the drama from your plunking is lost.
Cobb was a master plunker and knew this situation required a quarter.
good piece in WSJ this week on doing away with the penny, nickel and quarter.
Not until you pry them from my cold dead hands.
Ty was no sweetheart, but it's pretty clear Stump had his thumb on the scales.
But keeping the dime?
But who cares, really? Pretty soon the only way to pay for anything will be with an iphone app. Then the government really will control everything.
I laughed.
The government will only control everything in the sense that they'll apportion our lives to Apple, Amazon and Google.
Well, I got an iphone!
For many of us, the government only does bad meme is our version of What Did The Romans Ever Do For Us.
Actually, it's just an Obamaphone.
Forced me to take four years of Latin.
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
When were they discontinued?
(Except probably the half-cent didn't make it that long.)
(Except probably the half-cent didn't make it that long.)
Large cents, which were about the size of half-dollars, I guess, were cool, too. I think the penny as we know it came along in the mid-1850s or so.
Anyway, judging from Wikipedia --
Half-cent -- 1847
Two- & three-cent & half-dime -- 1873
Twenty-cent -- 1876
Large cent -- 1857
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