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I know @Volprofch05 knows people who won the Noble Prize, but since this is the baseball forum, I’ll mention that I went to church with a Brooklyn Dodger. This below screenshot popped up on my Facebook memories today.

Mr. McGlothlin was a very kind man. For years I knew him as the deacon at the front door of the church on Sunday mornings, always with a kind word.

Many years passed before I learned that he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Granted, he didn’t play for a very long time (some of it interrupted by World War II), but he got to play in Brooklyn with people such as Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. He was a Tennessee graduate, and he pitched for UT.

Notably, in 1944, while playing for a team on a military base, he pitched a 19 inning game. He faced Ted Williams seven times in that game, and Williams never reached base.

I’ll post a couple links below Mr. McGlothin’s picture for more info on him. You never know who you may cross paths with.

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Pat McGlothin, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who once pitched a 19 inning game, dies at 94 ~ Baseball Happenings

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@1RBFjr said:
I know @Volprofch05 knows people who won the Noble Prize, but since this is the baseball forum, I’ll mention that I went to church with a Brooklyn Dodger. This below screenshot popped up on my Facebook memories today.

Mr. McGlothlin was a very kind man. For years I knew him as the deacon at the front door of the church on Sunday mornings, always with a kind word.

Many years passed before I learned that he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Granted, he didn’t play for a very long time (some of it interrupted by World War II), but he got to play in Brooklyn with people such as Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. He was a Tennessee graduate, and he pitched for UT.

Notably, in 1944, while playing for a team on a military base, he pitched a 19 inning game. He faced Ted Williams seven times in that game, and Williams never reached base.

I’ll post a couple links below Mr. McGlothin’s picture for more info on him. You never know who you may cross paths with.

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Pat McGlothin, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who once pitched a 19 inning game, dies at 94 ~ Baseball Happenings

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That’s a great story, thanks for sharing!

Also, y’all are never gonna let me hear the end of the Nobel Prize stuff. I do have some (weak) baseball connections, though.

Turns out my mom in high school was good friends with Bobby Valentine. He was a great player at the time but had his career curtailed by injury and of course ended up in coaching.

Also, a good friend of mine in high school’s uncle is Al Downing, former MLB pitcher, who most notably gave up home run #715 to Hank Aaron. My friend went on to be a QB for Syracuse, but unfortunately he was there at the same time as Donovan McNabb.
 
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A few weeks ago my mom and dad were at some social gathering. My mom meets someone there who has a daughter, single close to my age. She asks me please call her. I wasn’t interested but to appease my mom, I sent a text that I’m out of town and maybe we could meet up or something. She sends a nice response. I tell my mom, my mom is happy. All done.


Until i look at my phone and you know how you can like a message with an emoji? Well I don’t know how it got there but I must have accidentally hit something. It’s like a nightmare. I sent this to her as a response.

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I panic, not sure if I can delete it and even if I did, did she already see it?

I must look like some weirdo.

Anyways I made up a story that my niece had my phone while I was driving them home from school and she sent the emoji. The girl responded with….😂

I’m such an idiot.
 
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mad4vols said:
A few weeks ago my mom and dad were at some social gathering. My mom meets someone there who has a daughter, single close to my age. She asks me please call her. I wasn’t interested but to appease my mom, I sent a text that I’m out of town and maybe we could memetic up or something. She sends a nice response. I tell my mom, my mom is happy. All done.


Until i look at my phone and you know how you can like a message with an emoji? Well I don’t know how it got there but I must have accidentally hit something. It’s like a nightmare. I sent this to her as a response.

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I panic, not sure if I can delete it and even if I did, did she already see it?

I must look like some weirdo.

Anyways I made up a story that my niece had my phone while I was driving them home from school and she sent the emoji. The girl responded with….😂

I’m such an idiot.
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Oh man, just blame it on @cobbwebb0710, everyone will understand then
 
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mad4vols said:
A few weeks ago my mom and dad were at some social gathering. My mom meets someone there who has a daughter, single close to my age. She asks me please call her. I wasn’t interested but to appease my mom, I sent a text that I’m out of town and maybe we could memetic up or something. She sends a nice response. I tell my mom, my mom is happy. All done.


Until i look at my phone and you know how you can like a message with an emoji? Well I don’t know how it got there but I must have accidentally hit something. It’s like a nightmare. I sent this to her as a response.

View attachment 506157

I panic, not sure if I can delete it and even if I did, did she already see it?

I must look like some weirdo.

Anyways I made up a story that my niece had my phone while I was driving them home from school and she sent the emoji. The girl responded with….😂

I’m such an idiot.
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I bet as soon as she saw the emoji, she thought to herself, what a noob!!
 
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mad4vols said:
A few weeks ago my mom and dad were at some social gathering. My mom meets someone there who has a daughter, single close to my age. She asks me please call her. I wasn’t interested but to appease my mom, I sent a text that I’m out of town and maybe we could meet up or something. She sends a nice response. I tell my mom, my mom is happy. All done.


Until i look at my phone and you know how you can like a message with an emoji? Well I don’t know how it got there but I must have accidentally hit something. It’s like a nightmare. I sent this to her as a response.

View attachment 506157

I panic, not sure if I can delete it and even if I did, did she already see it?

I must look like some weirdo.

Anyways I made up a story that my niece had my phone while I was driving them home from school and she sent the emoji. The girl responded with….😂

I’m such an idiot.
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Could’ve been worse, you could’ve responded with “show me your noobs!”
😬
 
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