So Sean and I visited the Baseball Hall of Fame last week, as a planned detour on the way to his cousin Michelle's wedding. A slightly longer detour than perhaps was necessary, thanks to some questionable GPS advice. But definitely worth the detour. Verrrrrry cool, and full of amazing memorabilia - like Cy Young's jersey from the World Series,
and the not one, but two balls from the two different no-hitters my dad has seen (I mean, how many people do you know who have seen two no-hitters live?! And, should I be hyphenating no-hitter?). I didn't realize that the two balls were coincidentally next to each other, as I could only remember the Mel Parnell game (Jim Bunning was the other).
That being said, any good word nerd is always on alert. Apparently the person in charge of the captioning the photos at the HOF does not read the NYT's "After Deadline" column (scroll down to the first part bullet of "In a Word"):
And of course, I had to pay homage to baseball's most ubiquitious crossword puzzle clue:
Go Phillies!