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Post by haneymademedoit on Jul 4, 2024 4:18:19 GMT
So I'm online reading the 'Trib' as we Chicago natives affectionately call it. It used to bill itself as "The World's Greatest Newspaper." That is how the famous tv/radio superstation WGN got its call letters as the Tribune expanded into radio and tv.
Unfortunately their site is paywalled so you may not be able to read the link; I have a subscription. In today's sports, there was a AP syndicated feature which runs each day, "Today in sports history." Normally I'll skip it but the headline today continued, "Amherst defeats Williams 73-32 in the first intercollegiate baseball game," so that caught my attention. How could a baseball game end up with a 73-32 final score?
Once I read that item from 1859, then I continued scrolling down the list which was in chronological order, eventually reaching the item,
"1951 — Beverly Hanson wins the Eastern Open by three strokes over Babe Zaharias in her first start on the LPGA Tour. Hanson is the only golfer to win a tournament in her first professional start."
Rose? Rose who? More proof of my repeated contention, "They will never forget you till somebody new comes along..." (Rose) and "Everything old is new again" (Beverly Hanson).
Now that I've completed my civic duty of media fact checking, I can return to my regularly scheduled bottle of Founders Brewing Dirty B****** Scotch style ale...
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