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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Milwaukee Journal, January 5, 1912: Frank Bowerman, Romeo, Mich., famous as the inventor of the only method of eating peas with a knife and without the loss of a pea…will quit baseball unless he gets his release from Kansas City.
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Bowerman’s invention for eating peas was to dump an order of mashed potatoes and an equally large order of green peas on the same plate. He would mix them well, then apply his trusty knife.
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When it came to dessert Bowerman always threw away his knife and often refused the aid of a spoon. He preferred to use his fingers in thrusting pie and ice cream into his face. Bowerman realized that fingers were made for personal use and he wanted to get all the possible use out of his.
That’s the sort of stuff you just don’t get in newspapers anymore.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: January 05, 2012 at 05:17 AM (#4029362)C: Earl Battey
1B: Ron Kittle
2B: Jim Gantner
3B: Bill Dahlen*
SS: Art Fletcher
LF: Riggs Stephenson
CF: Benny Kauff
RF/SP: Parisian Bob Caruthers
SP: Charlie Hough
SP: Danny Jackson
SP: Jeff Fassero
SP: Caucasian Rube Foster
RP: John Littlefield
RF when Caruthers is pitching: Milt Thompson
Backup C: Luke Sewell
Threw a no-hitter: Juan Nieves
* - I know Dahlen's really a SS, but he played 200+ games as a third baseman, Fletcher was too good not to use, and the best actual 3B born on January 5 is the immortal Fred Marsh.
Third base was apparently commonly referred to as "the difficult corner" and newly-appointed Reds manager Hank O'Day says pitchers with injured arms will "have to work the lameness out of their arms in games".
Dusty? Is that you?
And I wonder when that corner stopped being difficult and started being hot.
He certainly worked the front end of his staff a lot harder. George Suggs threw 40 more innings, Art Fromme threw over 80 more, and young lefty Rube Benton threw 302 innings in his first full season. All were markedly less effective and threw many fewer innings a year later.
-- MWE
I'm having to log back in every day, and separately from home and at work.
I thought you were supposed to use honey?
Do you have to pay royalties?
DB
I've done it all my life.
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