On Saturday, Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay pitched the 20th perfect game in MLB history. Today, the Florida Marlins will sell all unsold tickets from that game.
The announced attendance for the game was 25,086, but something tell us in the future many more people will claim to have been there.
The house that inspired ‘The Amityville Horror’ is up for sale. 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, finished basement, and “interesting history”. $1.15 million.
Scientists believe they’ve found the world’s oldest sex toy. It’s 28,000 years old and may have also been used to start fires.
Speaking of awesome baseball movies, the farmhouse where ‘Field of Dreams’ was filmed is for sale. It has 193 acres, 7 buildings, and the home is 2 bedroom/1.5 bath/2400 sq. ft. It comes complete with the baseball field, corn field, and approximately 65,000 visitors per year. It’s a steal at only $5.4 million.
The intangible assets of the property are simply not measurable. The Field of Dreams owners have been honored to be a part of sports history these past 20 years and have played host to a variety of sports celebrities along the way. Moments of peace and quiet, family togetherness and most of all, magic and wonder have been among their greatest and most cherished memories. It has been a destination for millions of visitors and may continue to be the place many find peace and quiet in our modern day existence.
Ken Burns’ awesome “Baseball” documentary will have a new four-hour installment come September. It will bring the 1994 series up to date with what’s gone on in the past 16 years. Of special note is the Red Sox’ 2004 World Series win:
A coda to Baseball held appeal because of recent events around the game — and, for a long-suffering Sox fan such as Burns, as a way to celebrate the team’s 2004 World Series win. “I admit we would not be doing this had they not won,” Burns says. “But this will sit well with all fans.”
Yeah, that should sit well with Yankees fans.
An artist is using a guerrilla campaign to promote subway etiquette.
On nail clipping:
Under no circumstance is the Subway the right place for this. [...] It’s crazy that this even needs to be mentioned.
So-called “global warming” is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don’t let them get away with it!
The New Yorker has a list of the least common complaints about the new iPad.
Gems include:
The iBookstore ichthyology section includes almost nothing on lampreys.
Upscaling makes porn unexpectedly upsetting.
and
Insufficient media coverage.
In 1934 a ledger was found that listed the “President” as having taken out two books in 1789 and never returned them. The President, of course, was George Washington. He borrowed “Law of Nations” and Vol. 12 of the “Commons Debates”.
This week, Bartlett and his staff became even more convinced the books were filched when librarian Matthew Haugen stumbled upon the long lost 14-volume collection of the “Commons Debates.”
Sure enough, Vol. 12 was missing.
The library doesn’t want the late fees, but they would like to get the books back.
A man, wearing a synthetic nylon jacket and a wool shirt, built up such a large static charge that he set fire to a carpet, burned plastic in his car, and caused the evacuation of an office building.
His clothes were measured by firemen as carrying an electrical charge of 40,000 volts, the Reuters news agency quoted Mr Barton as saying.
The fire official added that the charge was close to being high enough to cause the items to spontaneously combust.
They don’t mention if he got the job or not.
American Mensa published the 2010 edition of their top 50 web sites. Some make sense like NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, The Onion, and NPR, but I Can Has Cheezburger?
Forbes has a special report on the business of baseball. Unsurprisingly, the Yankees rank number one in total worth with the Red Sox number two and the Mets number three. However, I am surprised that the Yankees, at $1.6 billion (yes, with a ‘B’), are worth almost twice as much as Boston at $870 million.
In 2009, smack in the middle of the worst economy in seven decades, baseball’s 30 franchises turned in a record-high operating income [...]
Flickr user lance15100 gives us a set of old style beer cans.
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