Lee Smith (born December 4, 1957) is an American former pitcher in
professional baseball who played 18 years in Major League Baseball (MLB)
for eight teams. A native of Jamestown, Louisiana, Smith was selected by
the Chicago Cubs in the 1975 MLB draft. In 1991, he set a National
League (NL) record with 47 saves for the St. Louis Cardinals, and was
runner-up for the league's Cy Young Award; it was the second of three
times Smith led the NL in saves, and he later led the American League in
saves once. At his retirement, he held the major league record for
career games finished (802) and was third in games pitched (1,022). He
still holds the record for career saves for the Cubs (180) and held the
same record for the Cardinals (160) until 2006. After his playing
career, Smith worked as a pitching instructor in Minor League Baseball
for the San Francisco Giants. He served as the pitching coach for the
South Africa national baseball team in the World Baseball Classics of
2006 and 2009.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smith_%28baseball%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1829:
Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of a widow's self-immolation on
her husband's pyre, was prohibited by Lord William Bentinck in parts of
British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29>
1909:
The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club
in the world, were founded as a charter member of the National Hockey
Association.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Montreal_Canadiens>
1928:
Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo_Gordon_Lang>
1971:
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster-loyalist
paramilitary group, detonated a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk%27s_Bar_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
muddy:
1. Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
2. Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other
sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
3. Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud,
especially in colour or taste.
4. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
5. (archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
6. (figuratively)
7. Dirty, filthy.
8. Not clear.
9. Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
10. Of an image: blurry or dim.
11. Of light: cloudy, opaque.
12. Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback):
indistinct, muffled.
13. Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused,
incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
14. (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
15. Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now,
morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
16. (archaic) Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or
sulky.
17. (obsolete) Slightly drunk; tipsy. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muddy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a
single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing
his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually
falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent
rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.
--Thomas Carlyle
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle>