[Wikipedia] October 26: Bob Meusel

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  Bob Meusel was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played eleven
  seasons between the years 1920 to 1930, all but one for
  the New York Yankees.  He was best known as a member of the "Murderers'
  Row" of the New York Yankees championship teams of the 1920s.  Meusel,
  a left fielder noted for his strong throwing arm, batted fifth behind
  Baseball Hall of Famers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.  He led the American
  League in home runs (33), runs batted in (138) and extra-base hits
  (79) in 1925.  Nicknamed "Long Bob" because of his height,
  Meusel hit a .309 career batting average while making 368 doubles, 94
  triples, 156 home runs, and driving in 1,067 runs in his career.
  Meusel played his entire career with the Yankees, with the exception
  of the 1930 season in which he played for the Cincinnati Reds.  He
  drove in 100 runs five times and hit .300 seven times.  He hit for the
  cycle a record-tying three times.  His brother, Irish, was a star
  outfielder in the National League.  He had a comparable career batting
  average (.310) but, unlike Meusel, he had a weak throwing arm which
  prevented him from being a great outfielder.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1597:
  Imjin War: About twelve Korean ships commanded by Admiral Yi Sun-sin
  defeated a large Japanese invasion fleet of at least 300 at the Battle
  of Myeongnyang in the Myeongnyang Strait.
  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Myeongnyang)

1863:
  The Football Association, the oldest governing body in football, was
  founded at a pub in London's Great Queen Street.
  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Football_Association)

1881:
  The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place in Tombstone, Arizona,
  USA between the Wyatt Earp faction and Ike Clanton's gang.
  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral)

1937:
  Second Sino-Japanese War: Xie Jinyuan and his 'Lone Battalion' of
  Chinese soldiers began the Defense of Sihang Warehouse against waves
  of Japanese attackers during the Battle of Shanghai.
  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Sihang_Warehouse)

1955:
  Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims himself the first President of the newly
  proclaimed Republic of Vietnam, having deposed Emperor Bao Dai in a
  fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum)

2001:
  U.S. President George W.  Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law,
  significantly expanding the authority of U.S. law enforcement agencies
  in fighting terrorism in the United States and abroad.
  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act)


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Wiktionary's Word of the day:

  delude: To deceive someone into believing something which is false.
  (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/delude)


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Wikiquote of the day:

  Contempt loves the silenceit thrives in the darkwith fine winding
  tendrilsthat strangle the heart.  -- Natalie Merchant
  (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Natalie_Merchant)