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When Howard Cosell asked Curt Flood during a TV interview, how could he compare his rift with professional baseball to slavery, when he was making $90,000 a year? Curt Flood told Cosell: “A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave”. Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg were the only two connected with baseball who testified on Curt Flood's behalf, at trial. "His historic challenge to reserve clause transcended baseball. He courageously sacrificed his career to take stand for the rights of all players. If the HOF recognizes individuals with biggest impact on our game, it is undeniable that Curt Flood should be in the HOF". Tony Clark. Curt Flood would take pitch after pitch to allow Lou Brock the opportunity to steal bases and was terrific at hitting behind the runner and bunting. Curt Flood was in fact tied for fifth with the most sacrifice hits during the 1960's. From September 3, 1965 to June 2, 1967, Flood played 226 games in the outfield, handled 568 chances - a league record - without committing an error. Two weeks after his streak was broken, Flood completed the first unassisted double play by an National League outfielder since 1945. Curt Flood is in my HOF!!

On this day in 1956, the devastating Third Avenue Fire in the Bronx claimed the lives of six FDNY firefighters when a burning building collapsed, and injured 13 others. Today, we honor their sacrifice and remember the members who made the ultimate sacrifice: •

43 years ago, at 41,000 feet in the air, a brand new passenger plane carrying 69 people went completely silent. Both engines died at the exact same time. The massive jet had just run out of fuel mid-flight. The reason was a simple math mistake caused by a confusing transition. Canada was right in the middle of switching to the metric system. This specific plane was the very first one in the airline's fleet to use kilograms. The ground crew was still used to the old system. They calculated the fuel weight in pounds. The plane took off with less than half the fuel it needed to make the trip. What happened next should not have been survivable. The captain happened to fly small, unpowered gliders as a hobby. He had to do something no one had ever done with a commercial jet. He flew the heavy, powerless plane like a giant paper airplane toward an old abandoned military runway his co-pilot remembered. Neither of them knew the old base had been turned into a public car track. Neither of them knew there was a family racing event happening right on the asphalt that afternoon. Go-karts, cars, and kids on bicycles were directly in their path. The plane came down completely silently. There was no loud engine noise to warn the people below. The pilot forced the plane to drop out of the sky sideways just to slow it down. He came in fast. The front wheels collapsed when they hit the runway. The nose of the plane scraped across the concrete, throwing sparks everywhere until the huge jet skidded to a halt. The back end was sticking three stories up in the air. Nobody on the ground was hit. Every single one of the 69 people on board walked away. When airlines later put other pilots in simulators to try and copy the landing, every single one of them crashed. The plane was repaired and flew for another 25 years.

From 1963 to 2009, Canadian Roman Catholic priests took to the ice for charity. Through 907 games, they raised $4 million and only lost six games. Not bad for a team whose backup goalie was a horse. This is the story of the Flying Fathers! 🧵 1/10

A retired chief, a sergeant, and two Nassau County police officers walk into a mall… And they have a great conversation about life, family, policing, public safety, and service. And when the retired chief and sergeant walk away, they both agree how fortunate we are to have young women and men like Kim Kletcher and Kevin Marksteiner dedicating their lives to serving and protecting us. Thank you, Kim and Kevin, for what you do every day. It matters. I also really appreciated hearing your supervisors speak so highly of you when I spoke with them after we met—no surprise there. And thank you, George Scognamiglio, for your 35 years of service and for our continued friendship. (And for agreeing to turn our lunch into a walk through the mall!) @NassauPD

🚨 PASSENGERS LEFT STUNNED AS AMERICAN AIRLINES CREW REMOVE A COFFIN FROM A PLANE AT DFW — THEN THEY REALIZE WHO IT IS At Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport… an American Airlines jet pulls in like any normal flight. Then everything stops. Ground crew crowds around. No one moves. And a coffin is slowly brought out of the aircraft, right in front of passengers watching from the terminal. That’s when it hits. It’s one of their own. Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina, a 32-year-old American Airlines flight attendant based out of DFW. Most passengers will go their entire lives without ever seeing this. But the ones who did… won’t forget it. What would go through your mind if you saw this at your gate?

Isles pay tribute to NYPD cop Jonathan Diller during the TV timeout

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100th Birthday greetings from Mr. Gus Grissom of Mitchell, Indiana.

Gus Grissom, Purdue grad and the first astronaut to fly in space twice, was born in Mitchell, Indiana 100 years ago today. Here he is with his fellow Mercury 7 astronauts, in the center, below:

Seeing images of a lone Warthog circling low over Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran, supporting the CSAR for the downed F-15E crew. No heavy ordnance, no ECM pods, just the GAU-8 and a pilot hugging the deck - guarding the survivors. The images remind me of the "Sandy" missions of Vietnam, flown by A-10's granddaddy, the A-1 Skyraider. The tools have changed, but the role remains the same: fly low and slow, fly into the teeth of the danger, watch the treeline, and hold the line until everyone comes home. It was, and still is, the hardest seat in the sky - protecting the life of a brother on the ground at any cost, even your own. CSAR is a ballzy lot!

Two days after the Artemis II launch, we remember Gus Grissom, born on this day 100 years ago in the tiny town of Mitchell, IN. He perished on January 27, 1967 during the pre-launch test of Apollo I. Due to his seniority, he would have likely been our first man on the moon.

"It is a joke. The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it. These guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---. A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game. You can't slide into second base. You can't take out the f---ing catcher because Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their ass. Ryan Braun is a f---ing steroid user. He gets a standing ovation on Opening Day in Milwaukee. How do you explain that to your kid after throwing people under the bus and lying through his f---ing teeth? They don't have anyone passing the f---ing torch to these people. If I had acted like that, you don't go in that f---ing dugout. There are going to be 20 f---ing guys waiting for you." Goose Gossage. Baseball Ambassador. Legend!

Ralph Kramden warned her 😂🤣

When I was stationed at Trident Refit Facility in Kings Bay in 1991 I got a phone call from a friend of mine who told me I needed to come over to the hull shop. I asked him why and he wouldn’t say, he just said come on over. So I walked over, not knowing really what to expect but in the center of the shop, standing by itself was an electric plant control panel, the panel on the far right in the picture. I walked up to it and noticed many of the nameplates had been taken off. Under those nameplates, was years of notes and writing. Upon further investigation, I found my name written in a couple of different places, under titles like “Med run 1985”, “Northern run 1987”, “section 2”, etc., etc.. I didn’t know that the EO’s had written everybody’s names on the EPCP and here I was staring at it three years after I’ve left the boat. The boat had been decommissioned for a year and I don’t know how this one particular piece of it traveled all the way across the country from Puget Sound to Kings Bay. Why, I have no idea, but nevertheless there I was looking at it. It was good to reminisce, although it had only been three years, but what it brought about was a finality of the end of my boat. Seeing ships and submarines being scrapped is hard to take. They were never just metal—they were home. The place where you sweated, bled, slept, ate… and lived a part of your life that never really leaves you. The boat in the top right corner in the dock is my boat. PS. Nothing classified this was a Smithsonian display for the Submarine Force 100th birthday. If you look closely, you’ll see, they took a lot of the classified stuff out.

FDNY Bravest Football kickoff game of the season at Port Washington hs against NYC Corrections department kick off is 530pm hope you can make it. 101 Campus Drive Port Washington, NY 11050

"No Flag" Football Beautiful full-color #NFL Films from 60 years ago Steve Sabol recounts the aggressive defensive approach of that era, the absence of rules protecting the quarterbacks and players near the sideline, and the then-legal savage style of play during the mid-1960s.

Remember Black Sheep Squadron? #1970s

Remembering Alan Kulwicki today 12/14/1954 - 4/1/1993 #RIP Alan Kulwicki, of Greenfield, WI, won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup championship as an owner/driver. Less than five months later, he died in a plane crash near Blountville, TN. He was only 38. #AK7 🏁 #GoneTooSoon