The first televised Major League baseball game took place this day in 1939. Bob Barker the announcer. Covered on NBC TV. Like watching a movie. Except the screen was smaller. Like 7 inches by 4 inches.
The Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbits Field in Brooklyn. An afternoon game.
I was 4 years old at the time. Watched the game at Larry Hastrich’s home. Our informal baseball team laid around the living room watching. I laid on the floor.
We did not have a TV yet. I doubt anyone else’s family had one other the Hastrich’s. Did not make sense. Larry’s people and ours were all in the same financial strata. Working families. Our homes were two family ones. Most rented. Second floor.
My father was not able to purchase a TV set till after World War II. The War had not begun yet while we were watching the game at Larry’s home. It would not begin for several months.
When my Dad bought our first TV, it appeared he was the first of our social set to do so. No one else we knew had one. The company level at our home increased. Especially on friday evenings. The fights. Pabst Blue Ribbon sponsored the friday evening fights at 9. Everyone came! My father made arrangements with a funeral parlor owner friend. He would have folding chairs delivered to us every friday which my Dad and I would set up in the living room for our guests.
Understand that baseball was primarily the important sport for everyone. We kids for example would play every day at two fields. Brookside the most popular. Then a barren lot buried in the woods. Today, a neighborhood of lovely homes.
Boxing was the #2 sport. Adult men were boxing crazy. We were Italian. My parents’ friends Italian. The boxers of the day Italian. The fights in the Petrone living room were crowded!
Those were the days my friends!
Switching to Trump. He had a big Monday.
He continued his “retribution” war. This one against former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. For a purported screwup by Christie over the “Bridgeport Scandal.”
“Bridgeport” occurred in 2013.
Donald is setting the standard. He may very well be legally pursued for years after doing what he himself has been doing over the years. And that which he continues to do. What’s the saying: “What’ good for the goose, is good for the gander.” Another might be: “What goes around, coms around.”
Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony does not sound real to me. I suspect she is testifying for Trump’s ears in hops of a pardon. Trump never in effect a part of anything or saw anything she said.
Time will tell.
The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Epstein Estate client list and Black Book contacts.
Woe for many could occur down the road. The “act” meaningless without proof. It is the “lists” that could open the door and cause many to fall. Fall they will because of the lies said over the years to cover their activities.
Trump’s Executive Order re desecrating the American flag an issue decided years ago. Deeming such “freedom of speech.” Can be changed to be a crime. Would take a long time. I doubt Trump will be successful.
One of Trump’s tariff impacts hitting. And hitting hard! Its force has arrived. The tariffs on small games. Big time blow! Many small family businesses claim a 30 per cent negative revenue impact this year alone. Primarily due to a lack of inventory for Christmas. All because of Trump’s excessive tariffs. One example are Chinese tariffs which will hit 145 percent.
A death knell!
“An absolute bomb dropping on small businesses.” Games like Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble and Taboo will be hurt. Stores like Target, Costco, Barnes & Noble and other small stores along with them.
Good going, Donald!
A federal judge has temporally barred Abrega Garcia’s deportation to Uganda. Will Trump and ICE obey the Order?
Trump claims he has cleared D.C. of crime in 11 days…..What bullshit! Watch the next 11 days and 11 days thereafter. The crime numbers will increase again, fluctuate again. To the normal level they were. Not the radicalized number Trump claimed.
A U.S. News & World Report Analysis found the Labrador Retriever the “top dog breed in the U.S.”
I am not into cats. However, I came across an interesting cat item today: Eighty percent of all orange cats are male. Color is inextricably linked to a male cat’s sex.
Pillows have always been a problem for me. Prefer hard, though not too hard. “Hard” a universal word here. My desired “hard pillow” difficult to find. Hotels a problem. They must think all their patrons want “soft.” Soft become sheet level instantly.
The story of the first pillow interesting. The first pillow however would definitely have been too hard for me.
The first pillows were made of stone. The earliest pillows can be traced to Mesopotamia. To the “cradle of civilization.” Today, modern day Iran.
Around 7000 BCE, the carved stone served a practical purpose also. Helped to keep bugs and vermin out of the mouths, eyes and noses of the wealthy.
Enjoy your day!
Yes, Trump did succeed with clearing D.C. of crime, and in only 11 days.
It cost the American taxpayers over 6 billion dollars of taxpayer monies, but it is worth it. Now you can come to Washington without any fear or worry.
On to Chicago, that’s a place even worse. He’ll fix that too, you’ll see!
I do think President Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize this year, after all the work he has done to get and ensure peace. After all, the middle east with Israel and Iran is now over and peaceful, as is Russia and Ukraine. Both in a matter of days, just like he said/promised.
You Go DT and thanks for jobs well done. Keep it up!
Louis, Think about the crime situation in our large cities. It has been going on so long that it has been commonly accepted. It is time to make a paradigm shift. One violent attack is too much and not acceptable. So far this year, there have been 1,700 violent incidents in Washington DC. We need to target ZERO incidents! Hopefully by having more enforcement presence on the streets in the worse neighborhoods that we can achieve this goal. Hopefully this helps.
Hi Linda, most crime is done by poorly educated and desperate people. Fix the root of the problem (like many other countries have done, including Russia) and we will have better results than troops on the street, who cause BIG safety problems and become targets themselves.
Haiti (a authoritarian dictatorship) has troops on their streets and their crime rate is astronomical compared to say their immediate neighbor (Same Island) as the Dominican Republic (a democracy).
BTW Linda, if you had paid attention in school, or even the basic understanding of societies, you’d know this. Lou or the rest of us doesn’t need your right wing political nonsense.
Oh, the irony – how is it our president – Donald Trump, who is openly wanting, he thinks deserving, the Nobel Peace Prize is the man who is trying to get the name of the US Defense Department name changed to “the Department of War.”
Not really funny, is it!
Hey Lou, Lisa cook and Adam shifty Schiff! Mortgage fraud! They’re gonna meet the same legal ramifications as sweet ole Letitia James! Trumps bogus convictions are gonna be rescinded! WINNING!!
Hey Chicken Little – All of these “trumped-up” accusations,(Obama marriage, Terra Reade, etc., etc., etc.) have been proven wrong and almost all of your effort on their behalf have proven wrong and never come to anything. Because they are never true!
Oh yeah, another one of your wrong predictions was a wrong, like yourself – Trump WAS found criminally guilty of rape in a department store.
Don’t you get tired of being a looser?
What makes you think anyone listens to your crap, apart from the humor of your ignorance.
To be for Trump is to be devoid of any morals, character, standards, and sound judgement. Soon he will be gone and gone for good. Then we go to work removing the stain of his lunacy from the fabric of America.