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[bambam1729]

How original....

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And the doomscrolling clipping service goes on ... and on ......

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Best tribute I've read to Henry Aaron - I will never call him Hank again - https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...te-grace-uncom...

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Married 8 times. As a friend of mine used to say, he "had a lot of holes in his bucket." But I think he could afford the holes.

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This is only for the US but so far there have been about 25 million cases and 20 million people vaccinated - I realize many of these are only 1 dose,...

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Another thing similar to that was his consistency. The most HR he hit in 1 year was 47 in 1971, but in his prime years (1955-73) he hit between 30 and...

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I am...

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Also forgot

#3 all-time in hits...

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Sorry - didn't see that...

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Well, the Deborah Kerr and Don Knotts clues that other people got gave it to me - I had no clue until those....

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#1 all-time in home runs
#1 all-time in total bases - by a large margin over Stan Musial
#1 all-time in runs batted in
#4 all-time in...

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I'm amazed that Wieslaw Maniak still holds the Polish 100 metre record - that's going way back. Of course, he was pretty good - 4th at Tokyo behind Hayes,...

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And here's my Lord Burghley story, that I love. 1976 I'm playing the PGA Tour - my sponsors are Canadians from the club in Florida where I worked in 1974-75....

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Daniel Kinsey...

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David George Brownlow Cecil, the 6th Marquis of Exeter, Lord Burghley...

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I've heard it from both. One of my partners had COVID-19 this past summer. He said he got the vaccines and after the 2nd shot (Moderna) he was sick again...

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I thought this was a nice story - although it surprised me after seeing the title - https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/01...covid-19-vacci...

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Redolent of a quote I read from Jimmy Connors about 20 years ago, "You wanna know the difference between me and the guys playing today? I had to...

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And that is from a guy who went to Duke Medical School - talk about biting the hand ...

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Ouch ......