2/2 It had prompted a painting by Dick Perez which I used for the National Pastime cover of 1984 and again for Baseball in the Garden of Eden, in 2011. The Police Gazette sketch from the issue of May 15, 1886, however, was one I had not seen.

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1/2 Purchased this morning, from Rich West at periodyssey.com, a great guy with a wonderful site. The season opener at the Polo Grounds, in which Hoss Radbourn, new to Boston, lost to Mickey Welch and the Giants, was familiar to me from the photo by Richard Hoe Lawrence below.

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Miss Othmar. Everyone knows that.

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At the end of the clip, after Emmer’s ridiculous, easily challenged answer: KARL: “Let’s turn to the midterms…” Beltway reporters are more afraid of asking follow-up questions than Mister Mxyzptlk is of saying his name backwards.

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Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard arriving in London, 1947

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