OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

Professor, did you know we’re getting a Gus’s chicken on Lovell rd?
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Gus’s is pretty good, although I’m not a huge fan of spicy food. That was exacerbated when we took the kids there when they were young and I had to dig out pieces of meat with no sauce for them and only got the spicy outside myself.
 
On February 24 in Baseball History...
  • 1917 - The Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000. He will become an outfielder after one last, losing start on the mound, and play five more years.

  • 1926 - Southpaw Eddie Plank, winner of 326 games with a 2.35 career ERA, dies at 50 in his native Gettysburg, Pa.

  • 1943 - The Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of World War II. The Cardinals, with 260 farm players in the service, will reduce farm clubs from 22 to six. Only nine minor leagues will start the 1943 season. Advertisements for players appear in The Sporting News.

  • 1990 - Former Red Sox slugger Tony Conigliaro dies of pneumonia and kidney failure at the age of 45. Conigliaro, the youngest American League player ever to reach 100 career home runs, was nearly blinded by a 1967 beaning.

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