OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

On October 31 in Baseball History...
  • 1961 - A federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal, eliminating the last barrier against integration in the Southern Association.

  • 1967 - San Francisco's Mike McCormick, the league leader with 22 victories, is the NL Cy Young Award winner. It is the first year that pitchers are honored in each league.

  • 1972 - Gaylord Perry wins the AL Cy Young award by a 64-58 margin over Chicago's Wilbur Wood. Perry won 24 games for the fifth-place Indians.

  • 1973 - Tom Seaver wins the NL Cy Young Award, the first time the honor has gone to a pitcher with fewer than 20 wins. Seaver was 19-10 and led the league in ERA (2.08) and strikeouts (251).

  • 1979 - Mike Flanagan, who posted a 23-9 record for the Orioles, is named the winner of the AL Cy Young Award by a comfortable margin over Tommy John of the Yankees.
 
Today I learned that zip codes were divided up in regions. I bet the professor or @NorCalVol67 has us all beat.

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‘How many have you lived in just by using the first number.

For me, in order.

3 - New Johnsonville, TN
2 - Fontana, NC
3 - Elizabethton, TN
2 - Greenville, SC
5 - Port Washington, WI
4 - Perrysburg, OH
3 - Atoka, TN
3 - Kennesaw & Dallas, GA
7 - Mont Belvieu, TX
Back to 2 in two weeks - Blue Rock, OH
 
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