Lewis (first name unknown) was briefly a professional baseball player;
he played one game for the Buffalo Bisons of the Major League Baseball
(MLB) Players' League (PL) on July 12, 1890. Having approached the team
for a tryout, Lewis was the starting pitcher for the visiting Bisons
against the Brooklyn Ward's Wonders. During the three innings he
pitched, Lewis allowed 20 runs, all earned, before being moved to left
field, where he played the remainder of the game. The Bisons lost
28–16, with Lewis the losing pitcher; the total of 44 runs set an MLB
record that stood until 1922. In the third inning Lewis gave up two home
runs to Lou Bierbauer, only the second time a major league batter had
hit two home runs in a single inning. The press described Lewis as a
"failure", "unfortunate", and a "much disgusted ball tosser"
(news
clipping pictured). Lewis's earned run average (ERA) of 60.00 and walks
plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) rate of 6.667 were the worst of any
pitcher in the one-season history of the PL.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_%28baseball%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1908:
American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two
Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese
presence in Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_Stevens>
1931:
Bhagat Singh, one of the most influential revolutionaries of
the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the
British authorities.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh>
1994:
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Kemerovo Oblast,
Russia, after the pilot's 16-year-old son, while seated at the controls,
had unknowingly disabled the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593>
2001:
The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir,
causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the
Pacific Ocean.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bulldog clip:
1. A binder clip with rigid handles.
2. (surgery) A surgical instrument with serrated jaws and a spring-
loaded handle used to grip blood vessels or similar organs.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bulldog_clip>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions.
--Wernher von Braun
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun>