Sosa and Palmeiro free as birds, and other stories. Happy Birthday to Xavier Nady!*
“Maybe I called it wrong, but it’s official.” — Tom Connolly, HoF Umpire.
Today in baseball history:
Peter Bendix of Beyond the Box Score had an excellent writeup of this situation and the evolution of the National and American leagues. Rather than duplicate that effort, I recommend the work.
Fetzer was a radio station owner originally, and an electrical engineer by training, and is credited with a lot of innovation, especially regarding developments in broadcasting signal. He was also a spiritualist, founding the Fetzer Institute. He is largely to blame for the spread of Muzak but let’s not hold that against him.
Monaghan sells bad pizza but is otherwise a pretty decent sort by most reports.
Some of these items spread from site to site without being fact-checked, and that is why we ask for verifiable sources, so that we can help update the records and have documentation. Also, this is supposed to be fun.