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@Jimfrombaseball I used to play shortstop with this. One of the great improvements to ball gloves was when they started lacing the fingers together.

"You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; And if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about." 'Schoolboy' Waite Hoyt. Was a child prodigy from Flatbush who started throwing batting practice for the Brooklyn Robins and John McGraw’s New York Giants when he was barely 15 years old. That year, young Hoyt led three different amateur teams to their Summer League Championships, pitched back to back no-hitters for his High School team at Erasmus Hall. Hoyt made the National news when he became the youngest player ever to sign a major league baseball contract. However, his second nickname was “The Merry Mortician. The New York Times writer John Kieran tagged him with the nickname which Hoyt hated. "I didn’t do any embalming or anything like that; I helped direct funerals and became involved in sales during the off-season. People started calling me the Merry Mortician, and that name stuck for a while. I didn’t like that at all." Schoolboy Waite Hoyt. Back in the 1920's when Hoyt was a Giant and then a Yankee, players didn’t make the millions they do now. Thus, Hoyt had to take on second jobs in the offseason. Waite Hoyt also became a vaudeville star who swapped dirty jokes with Mae West and drank champagne with Al Capone, a philosophizer who bonded with Lou Gehrig over the meaning of life and a funeral director who left a body chilling in his trunk while pitching an afternoon game at Yankee Stadium. In addition to performing in vaudeville, Hoyt worked as a mortician at his father-in-law’s funeral home. Waite “Schoolboy” Hoyt. New York Giants batting practice pitcher. Age 15, 1915.

Nothing but net.

@MorosKostas Brass might be more valuable than gold one day.

S&P 500 index. Betting on the US stock market has historically never failed long term. Also guns. Incase the US stock market fails long term for the first time ever, which means you may need guns given what it would take to cause that. 🤣

@Moto_History Those old left side brake pedals phased out about 50 years ago. Imagine owning two bikes with opposite side pedals.

This vintage Triumph is a mix between a "cut down, bobber, and old school custom." What a great look and very much American. #triumph #oldschoolmotorcycles #classicmotorcycles #motorcycleenthusiast #americanmotorcyclestyle

@FlyFishingPlace Some of the best fishing is below the dams. Sometimes you wait until July for the river to be safely waded. Probably not this year. I just hope we don't have bad fires.

Good morning Friends! It's going to be a low water year out here in the West. Get your fishin' trips in early!

@WilliamShatner @RobertPicardo I had a nav unit with a Yoda voice. "Turn left you must."

I turned on my Waze App and was offered a Doctor from the new ST Academy Show voice. I was told it is @RobertPicardo. So I tried it out. It kept calling me a cadet and just to do what he said. 🙄 I thought I was the only person that gets annoyed with giving directions. 😑

@MorosKostas Wondering how to serialize my brass.

This one is so over the top that it: 1. Probably won't pass (but stay vigilant) 2. If it did pass, even the 7th Circuit may strike it down.

Serializing ammo would make it prohibitively expensive even if it were feasible to do it. And that's the real point. This bill also adds a 5 cent tax *per round* on top of that. From the people currently claiming the SAVE Act is bad because the poor can't get proper ID.

@HandRick66864 You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your followers.

X it's kind of like a real family. Some of the people you talk to are thoughtful and insightful and some are lunatics. 🤣

@FrankBr05713205 When I taught vector calculus at the Air Force Academy, I'd bring a racquetball racket in for the lecture on Green's theorem and a fishing net for Stokes' theorem. Weird, but it worked to help the cadets see the similarity and the differences.

I teach high school automotive technology (auto shop) After a week of trying to get my students to remember the 4 stokes of a 4 cycle engine (Intake, Compression, Power and exhaust) I decided to change the terminology. I then told them the strokes were "Suck, squeeze, bang and blow" They had no problem remember that! Sometimes you just have to get change tactics. Whatever works I say

@thenewarea51 @CWLemoine When my brother was at flight school at Rucker, he said the IP took off the little red beginner helicopter to a 5 foot hover. IP says, "Stay at this height and pointed at that tree. You got it." About 5 seconds later, IP says "I got it."

@CWLemoine Here’s your answer youtu.be/ZKN5XYt7Rew?si…

Maybe. 🤷‍♂️

@SocraticScribe @PalmerLuckey @anduriltech @Cdg8484 You know, I always hate it when the geese arrive at the golf course. I have an idea...

Ok what’s the over under on days it takes @PalmerLuckey and @anduriltech to higher this guy @Cdg8484 he put one of his plasma cannons on a damn remote control car…why aren’t defense contractors just hiring this dude…one my fave YT channels

@Jimfrombaseball Playing catch with a new baseball was a treat when you were a kid.

"Yogi Berra on first. Mickey at bat with the count of no strikes. Left-handed pitcher Chuck Stobbs on the mound. Mantle, a switch-hitter batting right-handed, digs in the plate. Here's the pitch . . . Mantle swings. . . there's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going, it's over the bleachers and over the sign atop of the bleachers into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest home runs I've ever seen hit. How about that! . . . We have just learned that Yankee publicity director Red Patterson has gotten hold of a tape measure and he's going to go out there to see how far that ball actually did go." Mel Allen. The Washington outfielders at Griffith Stadium never moved. Only twice before had a ball ever been hit over the Griffith left-field wall - once by Joe DiMaggio and once by Jimmy Foxx. Donald Dunaway, ten years-old, scrambled over the fence and was the first to get to the ball. Close behind was Yankee publicity director Arthur E. Patterson. Scuffed in two spots, the ball finally stopped in the backyard of a house, about 565 feet from home plate. In one of the best trades in baseball history, Patterson traded the Mantle home run ball for one dollar and three new baseballs to be autographed by the Yankee players. "If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket. Mickey Mantle.

@ConLima8 That's funny.

I watched 'ted' for the first time last night and my dog really didn't like the talking, moving teddy bear. He barked at it and went to his toy box, got a stuffed teddy and started ripping it up. [Weird right? I didn't think he had the brains to connect the two.]

@zerohedge I noticed that here in Idaho, after the no junk food with SNAP went into effect, the prices of the junk food has dropped by 15-20%. Makes you wonder what other prices are propped up by the government.

SNAP Recipients Claim Trump Trying To "Destabilize Food Access", Sue Feds Over Junk Food Ban zerohedge.com/political/snap…

@MagnumKeith Remember: don't go around half-cocked.

The Colt SAA probably attained its greatest popularity in 1902 when 18,000 were produced, and was still very popular in 1907 when 16,000 were produced. The old gun was manufactured until 1940 when 859 were made. “Gun Notes” (January 1978)

@CaryKelly11 Have you ever made your own?

Who produces the world’s best pork? Saddleberk is the best tasting bacon I’ve ever got out of a grocery store (Giant Eagle)! The fat just melts in my mouth and there is absolutely zero chemically taste. It has sugar in the ingredients but not enough to raise the blood sugar in a mouse. $9.99 for 12 OZ but so worth it.

Thursday was a big day for storm chaser Dan Fitts , who clocked winds of 98.4 mph near Chugwater. Fitts has spent three decades pursuing supercells across the High Plains, armed with a storm-scarred F-150 and a hail-proof NASCAR windshield. cowboystatedaily.com/2026/03/13/wyo…

@MagnumKeith Shooting 45 Colt in a single action is quite fun.

Some sixguns are perfect for hunting big game. Big 44 Smith & Wessons, and Colt New Service are the fastest to reload with their simultaneous ejection. But the old Colt Single Action by far has the best shaped grip for absorbing heavy recoil of powerful loads. “Sixguns” (1961)

@braxton_mccoy We know you're not an AI because of the typos.

I just cannot tweet without typos. It's incredible. May as well be an iron law.

On a serious note, carry a tourniquet and know how to use it. IFAKs and all that are useful, obviously, but for us non-medics being able to slap a tourniquet on yourself or someone else is the med skill most likely to save a life in dire circumstances.

@OnDisasters I saw it coming in to land when I was at Lackland AFB in 1983. I think it was landing on the Kelly runway because it was pretty close. Amazing sight.

Trivia- While most 747s could easily fly NY-London, the orbiter cut its range to 1,000 miles, with speed and ceiling limited to just Mach .6 and 15,000 feet. The limited range meant returning a shuttle to Florida took as long as three days.