This past Christmas my wife got for me one of those little tear-off-a-page-every-day desk calendars. Each page has a sports fact or trivia question relevant to that particular day.<\/p>\n
From March 12 until June 1 it sat untouched on my desk at work. June 1 was the day I stopped in to school to clean my room and pick up any materials I might need for the “summer.” (Which might last until 2027, apparently.) It was weird to say the least, of course, walking into that time warp, and among other things I considered immediately tearing off 75 pages from the calendar.<\/p>\n
No, I thought, I’m going to make this a little more interesting. I’m going to tear off not one but\u00a0two<\/em> pages every day from now until I’m caught up.<\/p>\n Well, today I caught up.<\/p>\n And now I know that on August 5, 1974, a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers was interrupted in the eighth inning when a whippet (that’s a dog) named Ashley ran on the field to catch a Frisbee thrown by its owner. (Ashley’s owner, Alex Stein, later creates the Frisbee Dog World Championship–a.k.a. the Ashley Whippet International World Championship.)<\/p>\n And now\u00a0you<\/em> know too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past Christmas my wife got for me one of those little tear-off-a-page-every-day desk calendars. Each page has a sports fact or trivia question relevant to that particular day. From March 12 until June 1 it sat untouched on my … Continue reading