Ben Paschal (October 13, 1895 – November 10, 1974) was an American
Major League Baseball player for eight seasons between 1915 and 1929. He
spent most of his career as the fourth outfielder and right-handed pinch
hitter of the Murderers' Row championship teams of the New York Yankees
in the late 1920s. He is best known for hitting .360 in the 1925 season
while standing in for Babe Ruth, who missed the first 40 games with a
stomach ailment. Paschal was described as a five-tool player, excelling
at running, throwing, fielding, hitting percentage and power hitting.
His playing time with the Yankees was limited because they already had
future Baseball Hall of Famers Ruth and Earle Combs, along with Bob
Meusel, in the outfield. Paschal was considered one of the best bench
players in baseball during his time with the Yankees, and sportswriters
agreed that he would have started for most other teams in the American
League. He was one of the best pinch hitters in the game at a time when
the term was still relatively new to baseball.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Paschal>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1307:
Agents of King Philip IV of France launched a dawn raid,
arresting many members of the Knights Templar, and subsequently
torturing them into "admitting" heresy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar>
1885:
The Georgia Institute of Technology was established in Atlanta
as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the
Southern United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology>
1917:
At least 30,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima,
Portugal, witnessed the "Miracle of the Sun".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun>
1979:
Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" topped the
Billboard Hot 100.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Stop_%27Til_You_Get_Enough>
2013:
During the Hindu festival of Navratri at a temple in the Indian
state of Madhya Pradesh, rumours about an impending bridge collapse
caused a stampede that resulted in 115 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Madhya_Pradesh_stampede>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
knock one over with a feather:
(idiomatic, informal) Used to express that one is greatly surprised.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/knock_one_over_with_a_feather>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In any given society the Remnant are always so largely an unknown
quantity. You do not know, and will never know, more than two things
about them. You can be sure of those — dead sure, as our phrase is —
but you will never be able to make even a respectable guess at anything
else. You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor
what they are doing or will do. Two things you do know, and no more:
First, that they exist; second, that they will find you. Except for
these two certainties, working for the Remnant means working in
impenetrable darkness; and this, I should say, is just the condition
calculated most effectively to pique the interest of any prophet who is
properly gifted with the imagination, insight and intellectual curiosity
necessary to a successful pursuit of his trade.
--Albert Jay Nock
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Jay_Nock>
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