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johnschneiderblog · 2 years

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Here comes the Judge

In the summer of 1961 I was 12 and besotted with baseball, so the Maris-Mantle home-run chase was totally in my wheelhouse. It was pretty much all I thought about.

Roger Maris won. He hit 61 homers, surpassing the 60 hit by Babe Ruth in 1927. In 1961, baseball was still the National Pastime, so the nation was transfixed.

I’m recapturing some of that vibe now as New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge approaches Maris’s’ record. He hit No. 60 on Tuesday and, with 12 games to go, has a good chance of tying, or passing Maris’s single-season record.

So what about Sammy Sosa (66 homers in 1998), Mark McGwire (70 in 1998), and Barry Bonds (73 in 2001) ...?

That’s where things become muddled. Sosa, McGwire and Bonds set their records during the so-called “steroid era,” when some players relied on performance-enhancing drugs to increase their offensive numbers.

Any reasonable baseball fan (me, for example) still believes the record belongs to Maris; and soon, to Aaron Judge.

#John Schneider #baseball #Aaron Judge #home-run race #Roger Maris #61 in '61

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dduane · 2 months

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...This is just in the nature of a PSA for anyone interested in rail travel (in Europe and beyond), for pleasure or just to get around.

There are some online resources that are nothing to do with giant corporations, but that punch way above their weight in what they offer you... specifically because they're the day-to-day expression of one person's passion for a topic that continually engages them. The Man in Seat 61 website is one of these.

If you're interested in rail even in a general way, you ought to know about Seat 61: because what Mark Smith doesn't know about the subject is probably minor enough to not need knowing. His work's as valuable for newbie rail travelers as for those of us who've been doing this kind of travel for a while. (For example, just found out via Seat 61 that a trip that I've often done with @petermorwood for business purposes, the Zurich to Munich run, is now nearly an hour shorter than it was when we last did it. Yay!)

So if you're planning a trip*, or just interested in seeing how to get around in Europe (and various other continents as well), check out The Man in Seat 61.

*Mark's especially strong on the subject of reduced-rate rail passes, so don't miss out on the pages about those.

#the Man in Seat 61 #rail travel #European rail travel #rail passes #interrail

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autoraton · 9 months

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You and I, we drove on I-95 West...

[ID: a digital drawing of young ron stampler from dungeons and daddies. he is sitting in the backseat of a car, the scene lit dully in blues by the rainy sky outside the window. ron looks outside the window, facing away from the viewer, while he is holding his dog rogue. his only visible expression is his furrowed brow. end ID]

#emo about ep 61 forever.#my art #fanart #dndads #dungeons and daddies #ron stampler #sort of a spiritual successor to my other ep 61 piece?#edit: added id by fixingher

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mp100days · 2 years

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