Whitey Ford of the NY Yankees pitched an unusual 14-hit shutout in his first major league start.
Ford gave up 10 singles, 3 doubles and a triple, walked a batter, hit a batter, and made one wild pitch.
Luckily for him Yankee defense clicked off a triple play and 6 double plays, and threw out 3 runners, two at home plate.
In his second start Ford pitched the only No Hitter of his career. After walking the first 3 batters he was treated to another triple play. He then proceeded to retire the next 24 in a row.
Up in **Row 24 **of the bleachers, a fan stood up and yelled, “WE CAUGHT ONE! WE CAUGHT A SPORTS PERSON HERE IN GAMES!” Then the thread gamers huddled together to decide what to do next.
Row 24 was producer/director William Castle’s last movie. Like many of his films, there was a gimmick rigged in the theatre to coincide with the movie–at a certain point in the film, a patron sitting in row 24 would vanish in a puff of smoke, never to be seen again. There was no telling which seat would be singled out; additionally, some theatres had extra rows of seats in front which made identifying the 24th row problematic. Teens thought this was great. All prints were confiscated by the Justice Department the third night of release.
More than 300 eye witnesses saw John Wilkes Booth leap from Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, including several actors who had worked with him many times and knew him well and could give positive IDs. Based on their information, Washington D.C. police immediately went on a manhunt and arrested all 15-21 year old black males they found on the street.
Lucretia, Mehitabel, and Shan’kahaleia topped the 2014 top names for girls in the U.S., U.K., and Guyana, while Delbert, Osgood, and Phartuccio were the top names for boys.
True trivia: Ida McKinley had Tourettes and used to stick her tongue out and make faces at White House guests; when this happened her husband would instinctively pull out an oversized scarf and drape her face until the twitches passed and go on as if nothing had happened. I’ve always found this story oddly romantic.
Pollyanna is the least popular name in Guyana ever since Prime Minister Fred Pollyanna Khatanna put a ban on excessive banana production on all government-run banana plantations. This led to heated debates over the definition of a banana, with Carlana Fantana claiming that his plantain plantation was exempt from the banana ban.
Lawrence Welk was born Lawrence Watkingsley Jamerson-Phartuccio Lombardy Pudding Elk on June 3, 1877 in Blawnox, Pa., but changed his name for a career in music, using elements of his first, second and last names.
Viewers were stunned - STUNNED, I tell you - to find that Lawrence Welk was originally one of the Lombardy Pudding Elks of Blawnox and that the Lennon Sisters were actually his half-sisters from his mother’s third marriage to Wayne Scoting Lennon.
The only known revolt on the Lawrence Welk show was a “sickout” staged by The Lennon Sisters and Myron Floren after Welk demanded that they perform “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida” while Bobby and Cissy danced the polka. Myron was later found in a shabby motel room surrounded by empty bourbon bottles and the half-clad Lennons.
The Half-Clad Lennons was Yoko’s idea for the name of the group (all the members would be nude from the waist up), but John suggested Plastic Ono Band and the lawyers agreed.
In 1996, Yoko Ono became the first recording artist to have her work played simultaneously on every FM station and home stereo in Europe and North America, which lasted for about 18 seconds before someone in Pawtucket queued up “You Can’t Dance Me” by The Muffkins.
On July 11, 2015, FM radio will become a thing of the past as the Earth will begin to be perpetually bombarded by solar radiation flares that will make FM broadcasting impossible. AM radio will be just fine, thanks. And no one will care because they’ve all gone to Satellite radio.
Lawrence Welk’s estate successfully sued Meighan Trainor claiming plagiarism for All About the Bass and Ludacris for Get Back Mofo You Don’t Know Me Like That as there are recordngs of Welk singing both songs as early as 1958.
Lawrence Welk’s great grandson, Marvin, made his contribution to the entertainment industry as a highly trained astronaut knob-turner for satellite radio.
Orson Bean and Lawrence Welk’s great grandson Marvin did an uncredited rewrite of the Dustin Hoffman/Warren Beatty epic Ishtar for a reported $3.5 million. Despite their addition of an exciting scene with a herd of stampeding Lombardy Pudding Elk, the movie bombed anyway.
To honor her husband’s heritage, Kate Upton learned to play the accordion, which seriously diminished the size and shape of her breasts. An extremely shallow man, Marvin divorced her and in retaliation Kate has threatened to name the child Bozo Funnypants.
