Mitch Powitz

I stopped by my home club to hit a few balls just before lunch today. The PGA Staff had about 40 kids out there doing all kinds of cool games. These kids were 12-14 years old. They were laughing and having a blast. I went up to have lunch and they were all on the back porch. I jumped in and had a grilled cheese with them. A club staff member told them that I’m Mr. Rymer and I played the PGA TOUR. One kid asked “did you play with Byron Nelson on Tour?” This is one reason I don’t like kids…..

@BoopStats Crazy. Wasn’t chosen in 1976

@BoopStats Reggie Jackson?

Kevin McGonigle and Mike Trout will be the sixth and seventh MLB players born within 50 miles of Philadelphia to be selected for an All-Star Game in the City of Brotherly Love --

Cliveden, a large stone house owned by attorney Benjamin Chew, became a shelter for 120 British soldiers under British Colonel Thomas Musgrave during the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777. This fortified position became a thorn in the Americans’ side, with numerous assaults on it repulsed at a high cost. Eventually, night fell on the battlefield, and the American forces retreated from the field. The battle ended in a British victory. battlefields.org/visit/heritage…

Coming soon folks, @TomMcMillan63 has written an amazing book I just can’t wait to read.

163 years ago today New York City exploded. The Draft Riots, which began on July 13, 1863, became the deadliest urban riot in American history. Furious over a new federal draft that let the rich buy their way out for 300 dollars, mobs torched draft offices, then turned their rage on the city's Black residents in horrific violence, even burning a colored orphanage to the ground. It took the arrival of Union troops, some marching in straight from the field at Gettysburg, to finally put it down after four days. More than 100 people were killed. The war was not only in the South. It was tearing at the North from the inside too.

@RobertTalisse @eeclarkjr Jersey Strong 🐀

@eeclarkjr Yay!

New Jersey in the news again.

When she's not working as a full-time nurse, Sarah Johnson is a veteran member of the Pittsburgh Pirates Ball Team. ⚾️

😍OTD 1943: Philadelphia hosts its first Midsummer Classic, a 5-3 AL win at Shibe Park. It is the first scheduled night game in All-Star history and is broadcast via shortwave radio to American servicemen around the world. #phillies

😍OTD 1976: Veterans Stadium hosts its first All-Star Game, a 7-1 NL victory before 63,974 fans, including President Gerald Ford. LF Greg Luzinski is the Phils first outfielder to start since Del Ennis in 1955. Bob Boone, Larry Bowa, Dave Cash, Mike Schmidt also on team.

We ate dinner on a rooftop at the Indiana Dunes tonight and we could see the Chicago skyline across the lake as the sun was setting. One of the most insane sunsets I’ve ever seen! 🌅

"Lady Writer" by Dire Straits was officially released as a single on July 13, 1979. It was the lead single from their second studio album, Communiqué, which had dropped a month earlier on June 5, 1979. “Another time , another place ..” 🎸 Press ▶️ 👇

Today 1973, Senate Watergate Committee investigating President Richard Nixon: Q: Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President? ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD: I was aware of listening devices -- yes, sir.

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima. Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes. Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse. No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed. So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history. When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive. The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy. At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong. They convicted him anyway. For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy. Case closed. For fifty years. Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project. He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay. A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001. The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader. Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

Happy International Rock Day! Charlie was unphased by rock 'n' roll aristocracy: "There's a lot more interesting people around than rock'n'roll bands. There's this huge cult grown up around rock'n'roll, but I never saw it myself...I mean I just didn't 'get' it."

Superstition reimagined with guitar. Complete with mistakes.

Happy Monday! "Don't Cry Wolf" - The Damned. A stand-out from their nearly unlistenable second album...

41 years ago today, Dire Straits took the stage at Live Aid 1985. Performing between U2 and Queen, they delivered a flawless set: "Money for Nothing" with Sting and "Sultans of Swing." Mark Knopfler's guitar work was incredible. Still an iconic moment in rock history. 🎸 Videos👇

Not only are the Pittsburgh Pirates 47-47 this year. They have 10,957 wins and 10,957 losses since 1882.

And it has its own song…. youtu.be/oTIuliHWztg?si…