Start with Latin. Then French, Spanish, Italian all make a lot more sense.

SdeB, I had 2 years of Latin coincident with my French. The instant I saw that agricola meant farmer in lesson 1, I was hooked on the vocabulary part. Ours was strictly book learning.
My boys took Latin in HS, and not only did they learn book Latin but also conversational with a lot of history/Roman life bits too. They had a wonderful Magistra.

Once again, Musial gets overlooked, as a thread about his passing turns into a discussion of Spanish. ;)

The Man's 1948 season was amazing in many ways (like his .702 SLG being NL tops by .138), but I find the 103 EBH especially remarkable. It led MLB by 22, NL by 29, and between Greenberg in 1940 and Aaron in 1959, no one else in MLB even reached 90, much less 100 - though Musial reached the 90 mark in 1949 and 1953. It's not the outlier to match Ruth's 1919-21 homers, but it still was head and shoulders above what anybody else did during that era.

Sandy, sorry. There were about three threads going at once so hijacking one isn't too awful, is it?

Cool facts, BTW.

Thanks, and that 1st line of mine was 2/3 snark.

It led MLB by 22, NL by 29,

Musial, 1st place 429 total bases
Mize, 2nd place 316

Yowzers!

edit: Stan's 429 bases was the highest total since Jimmy Foxx's 438 in 1932, and, well, no one has topped that total since.