Film locations for The Way We Were (1973) included the village of Ballston Spa in upstate New York.
I just saw the movie tonight. First time ever. If I had a bullet I would have shot myself. :smack:
Cooperstown, a small town in upstate New York, is the location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
When the Hall of Fame was first founded in the 1930s, it was believed by many that the game of baseball had been invented in Cooperstown, in 1839, by Abner Doubleday (who would later become a general in the U.S. Army during the Civil War). However, most baseball historians now believe the tale of Doubleday’s involvement in creating baseball to be a myth.
One popular exhibit in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown is the collection of World Series championship rings. The first ring, from 1922, was designed by New York jeweler Dieges & Clust and featured a single diamond. The rings from that decade are quite modest, especially compared to the current massive rings; the 2003 World Series rings featured 229 diamonds, including one teal diamond, and 13 rubies. The 2016 World Series rings for the Chicago Cubs had 214 diamonds at 5.5 carats, 3 carats of rubies, and 2.5 carats of sapphires, said to be worth $70,000.
(If you want to see a collection of tacky, ugly rings, look no further)
Nomar Garciaparra is the only player in major league baseball history to hit three home runs on his birthday.
On August 18, 1967, the Red Sox were playing the
California Angels at Fenway Park. Player Tony Conigliaro, batting against Jack Hamilton, was hit by a pitch on his left cheekbone and was carried off the field on a stretcher. He sustained a linear fracture of the left cheekbone and a dislocated jaw with severe damage to his left retina.[5] The batting helmet he was wearing did not have the protective ear-flap that has since become standard.
A year and a half later, Conigliaro made a remarkable return, hitting 20 homers with 82 RBI in 141 games, earning Comeback Player of the Year honors. In 1970, he reached career-high numbers in HRs (36) and RBI (116). That season he and his brother Billy formed two-thirds of the Red Sox outfield. After a stint with the Angels in 1971, he returned to the Red Sox briefly in 1975 as a designated hitter, but was forced to retire because his eyesight had been permanently damaged.
Currently, the Tony Conigliaro Award, instituted by the Red Sox after his death, is given annually to the MLB player who best overcomes obstacles and adversities through the attributes of spirit, determination and courage that were considered Tony’s trademarks.
The Los Angeles Angels entered Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1961, owned by entertainer Gene Autry. The name was the same as a minor league franchise which had competed in the Pacific Coast League. Autry bought the rights to the Angels name from Walter O’Malley, who owned the Los Angeles Dodgers at the time. In their first year of existence, the Angels played at the same park formerly used by the minor-league Angels, Wrigley Field in Los Angeles.
Gene Autry, a.k.a. “The Singing Cowboy,” was a popular film and recording star in the 1930s through the 1950s. He made nearly 100 films, mostly Westerns, and recorded many Western songs, as well as still-popular recordings of holiday songs, including “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Here Comes Santa Claus” (which Autry also wrote).
Later in his career, Autry diversified, and he was the owner of a livestock ranch (specializing in stock for rodeos), and several television and radio stations, as well as being the original owner of the Los Angeles / California Angels major league baseball team.
Former baseball player Pete Rose once gave Yankees great Joe DiMaggio a shower while on a USO tour in the jungle of Vietnam, afterwards observing:
“The best way to describe Joe DiMaggio is, he was a penis with a man hanging from it.”
Retired Yankees player Joe DiMaggio, a friend of Ronald Reagan, had the President and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev both sign a baseball during their December 1987 summit meeting in Washington, D.C. The baseball is unique in having the autographs of both a President of the United States and a top Soviet leader.
The life span of a major league baseball is 5–7 pitches. During a typical game, approximately 70 balls are used.
The West Virginia Mountaineers scored 70 points against the Clemson Tigers in the 2012 Orange Bowl, setting the record as the most points ever scored by one side in the history of all bowl games.
The San Francisco 49ers scored 55 points on January 28, 1990 against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV, setting the record as the most points scored by one side in the history of all Super Bowl games.
It is still the record today.
Super Bowl LIII (#53) was the most recent NFL title game, played on February 3, 2019. The two competing teams were the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots. The Patriots won the game 13-3; this was the fewest points ever scored in a Super Bowl game.
Battleships generally considered to have been of the super-dreadnought type include the British Royal Navy’s *Orion *class, first laid down in 1909, and the United States Navy’s New York, the French *Bretagne *and the Japanese *Fuso *classes.
As the replicant Roy Batty, played by the late Rutger Hauer, lay dying, he told Blade Runner Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford:
Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, who died ten days ago, improvised that famous closing monologue in Blade Runner. Hauer began his acting career in 1969 in the TV series Floris, playing a Dutch knight.
Blade Runner, directed by Alien director Ridley Scott, was set in Los Angeles in the year 2019.
“May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose” was a novelty song, performed by Little Jimmy Dickens, which reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965.
The song was written by Neal Merritt, and the title was inspired by an insult uttered by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. The song’s chorus consists of a string of insults:
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose
May an elephant caress you with his toes
May your wife be plagued by runners in her hose
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose
There is a worldwide boycott of Chiang Mai, Thailand’s elephant massage industry, based on animal cruelty reasons as well as safety.
One Night in Bangkok from Chess is Murray Head’s biggest selling single, despite the fact that he raps the whole song and does not sing a note of it.