Mean Mr. Mustard was a longtime student hangout just off the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Ohio’s nickname is The Buckeye State. Another nickname for Ohio is The Mother of Presidents, because 8 of the 44 American presidents were elected from Ohio:
#9, William Henry Harrison (lived in North Bend OH when elected);
#18, Ulysses S. Grant (born in Point Pleasant OH);
#19, Rutherford B. Hayes (born in Delaware OH);
#20, James A. Garfield (born in Orange (Moreland Hills) OH);
#23, Benjamin Harrison (born in North Bend OH);
#25, William McKinley (born in Niles OH);
#27, William Howard Taft (born in Cincinnati OH); and
#29, Warren G. Harding (born in Corsica (Blooming Grove) OH).
William Howard Taft was a member of the Howard family, one of the first families to immigrate to Massachusetts. One of the earliest members, Annie Lucy Howard, was my eight times great-grandmother.
William Howard Taft was the only man to serve as both President and as Chief Justice of the United States, and held the latter job at the time the current Supreme Court building was completed.
With the death of his long-time friend and mentor Andy Griffith last July 3, Ron Howard, age 59, is the last living original cast member of The Andy Griffith Show.
It’s well known that Ron Howard usually finds a role for his brother Clint in his movies, but he’s found roles for his parents, too. Both of his parents were in Apollo 13- his mom played Jim Lovell’s mother, and his father played the Lovell family’s pastor.
Clint Eastwood wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his “Man with No Name” Westerns.
America’s debut single “A Horse With No Name” was banned by some U.S. radio stations (including one in Kansas City, Missouri) because of supposed drug references, “horse” being a common slang term for heroin.
Ron Howard’s father, Rance, was a writer for The Flintstones and an occasional actor who would bring his son onto the set with him. In Frontier Woman, an abysmal western featuring the elder Howard, young Ron made his film debut at the age of one.
ETA: Ninja’d, so adding that horses were used in that western.
Davy Crockett was “King of the Wild Frontier.” His coonskin cap, from the Disney TV show about him, became a childhood fad in the mid-50s (I had one myself).
The De La Pena diaries, whose authenticity is in dispute, were highly controversial, because they indicated that a few surviving defenders of the Alamo, including Davy Crocket, surrendered to Santa Ana, and were subsequently executed. Many Texans prefer to believe that all of the rebels went down fighting.
President Jimmy Carter once visited the Alamo, which is in downtown San Antonio, Texas.
President Jimmy Carter is the only President to have been attacked by a rabbit.
Or at least the only President to publicly admit to being attacked by a rabbit
Comedian Charles Fleischer, once a regular on TV’s Welcome Back, Kotter, provided the title character’s voice in the movie*** Who Framed Roger Rabbit?***
Christopher Lloyd played the villainous Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, while Kathleen Turner provided the voice of the impossibly curvy Jessica Rabbit.
Shylock’s daughter Jessica becomes a Catholic and marries Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice.
Longtime American League umpire Nestor Chylak (rhymes with Shylock) nearly lost his sight due to injuries in the Battle of the Bulge. Among his noteworthy games as an umpire were Sandy Koufax’s final game in the 1966 World Series; the first American League Championship Series, “Ten Cent Beer Night” in Cleveland in 1974, in which he declared a forfeit due to constant fighting after he was hit over the head with a chair; and the first major league game played in Toronto in 1977, during a snowstorm at Exhibition Stadium, for which he was the home plate umpire. In 1979, as assistant league supervisor of umpires, he ordered a forfeit by the White Sox at Comiskey Park due to field damage from the “Disco Demolition Night” festivities.
Journeyman outfielder Rusty Torres was present at three major league baseball games that ended in forfeits
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He was on the Yankees’ bench for the final game of the 1971 Washington Senators, who were planning to move to Texas. The game was forfeited when fans rushed the field, trying to steal souvenirs from RFK Stadium.
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He was traded to Cleveland in the deal that sent CHris Chambliss to the Yankees, and was playing for the Indians during the disastrous 1974 “Ten Cent Beer Night.” The game was forfeited when drunk fans rushed the field and attacked Texas Ranger outfielder Jeff Burroughs.
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Torres was playing for the White Sox in 1979, and had just finished playing in the first game of a twilight doubleheader. Between games, a rock radio staion sponsored “Disco Demolition Night,” which led to drunk rowdy fans throwing records and charging the field. The second game of the doubleheader was forefeited.
There are three recorded instances of a tripleheader in Major League Baseball, indicating three games between the same two teams on the same day. These occurred between the Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Pittsburgh Innocents on September 1, 1890 (Brooklyn won all three); between the Baltimore Orioles and Louisville Colonels on September 7, 1896 (Baltimore won all three); and between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds on October 2, 1920 (Cincinnati won two of the three).
SFC Schwartz
The Pittsburgh Pirates’s home park is PNC Park, which opened in 2001 after their previous home park, Three Rivers Stadium, was demolished. PNC Financial Services purchased the naming rights to the ballpark in 1998.