Mark Baldwin (1863–1929) was an American right-handed professional
baseball pitcher who played seven seasons in Major League Baseball
(MLB). Born in Pittsburgh, Baldwin made his professional debut for a
Cumberland, Maryland, team in 1883. He made his MLB debut for the
Chicago White Stockings in 1887. Baldwin signed with the Columbus Solons
of the American Association in 1889, and led the league in innings
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strikeouts (368), and walks (274). In 1890, he played for the Chicago
Pirates of the Players' League and was the league leader in games played
as a pitcher (58), innings pitched (492), wins (33), strikeouts (206),
complete games (53), and walks (249). He later played for the Pittsburgh
Pirates and New York Giants, then went on to a career as a physician.
In 346 career MLB games, he pitched to a 154–165 win–loss record
with 295 complete games. Baldwin set the single-season MLB wild pitches
record with 83 that still stands today.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Baldwin_%28baseball%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1951:
Construction began of the United Nations Military Cemetery, the
only United Nations cemetery in the world, in Busan, South Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Memorial_Cemetery>
1956:
Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the
fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his
followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvab_Safavi>
1969:
Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo
after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and
occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2%80%931969_Japanese_university_protests>
1983:
Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic
Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American
athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing
semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
spate:
1. (countable) A (sudden) flood or inundation of water; specifically, a
flood in or overflow of a river or other watercourse due to heavy rain
or melting snow; (uncountable, archaic) flooding, inundation.
2. (countable) A sudden heavy downpour of rain.
3. (countable, figurative) A sudden increase or rush of something; a
flood, an outburst, an outpouring.
4. (transitive) To (suddenly) flood or inundate (a river or other
watercourse) with water.
5. (intransitive) To (suddenly) rain heavily; to pour.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system,
one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. It's only
possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see
it. That's what guerrilla ontology is — breaking down this one-model
view and giving people a multi-model perspective.
--Robert Anton Wilson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson>
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