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.

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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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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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