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A wonderful short-short story, foreboding the era of women's empowerment, bridging the gap between Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1792, which you need to read) and Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" (1996). "The Story of an Hour" (1894) by Kate Chopin on archive.vcu.edu -
*** SPOILERS FOLLOW *** Sometime in the late 1960s, we were visiting my Aunt Kitty and Uncle Ben in Detroit, and were out for a walk. We walked past a park, and Uncle Ben (who knew I was a baseball savant) asked me to guess who the park was named after - I immediately said "Ty Cobb,: and he (in his 70s at the time) said, "No, no, no! Ty Cobb wasn't loved here in Detroit - this park is named for Harry Heilmann!" (With his accent, I thought he had said "Harry Hahmann," and I never got the name right for the next twenty years). Uncle Ben had lived in Detroit for decades, and remembered both players very well - he said how much Heilmann was loved by the residents of Detroit - little did I know that Heilmann was also arguably the greatest right-handed hitter of all-time (apologies to Rogers Hornsby). He's the only player ever to be in the .400 / 40 club (with 40 Doubles) - I may be wrong about this: Someone please let me know if I am. If you're unfamiliar with Heilmann, look at his batting statistics in the 1920s! Maybe the greatest hitter you've never heard of? Nobody has ever hit .400 in four seasons, but people say that if Heilmann - whose nickname was "slug" - wasn't so slow afoot, he'd be the one who had done it: He was a total of 8 hits away - 8 infield hits away - from accomplishing the feat, had he hit them judiciously in 1921, 1925, and 1927.
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Any baseball fan knows the Louisville Slugger is part of the sport's historical foundation. Hillerich & Bradsby, the independent company that used to equip all major leaguers, has seen their market share shrink in recent years (to about 60% now) as domestic and overseas brands like Marucci and Mizuno have signed star players to use competing bats. Other challenges have included lawsuits and supply chain issues. They've tried to respond. The Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, Kentucky is a must-see for any avid baseball fan, right up there with Cooperstown. I've been a few times and spent a couple of hours there as recently as two years ago. Today, a CEO with the same last name as the founder has thrown in the towel...or bat. Very sad news as the company is being sold to Wilson Sporting Goods, part of a $2.5 Billion Finnish Company. Per the norm, all parties proclaim it good for all with few changes for now. Sigh.
