Kudos and plaudits for 11-year old Kate Drury of Chatham, NJ. Somebody lost a World Series ring and she found it, and she tracked down the owner and returned it. The World Series in question took place 50 years ago, 1960, between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates, and it was one of the most memorable on record. The first ever to be ended by a walk-off home run (Bill Mazerowski's homer to left) and one in which the hated Yankees scored a bizillion runs and still managed to lose the Series. But I digress. Fifth-grader Kate found a Pittsburgh Pirates World Series ring under a snack bar table in a hockey rink in nearby Morristown, NJ. Turns out it belonged to one Merrill Hess, now 82, who had been associate director of scouting for the Pirates back then. He was "heartbroken" when he discovered his loss. For her honesty--she and her dad returned the ring personally to Mr. Hess--she got a check, a gift certificate, and a signed 1960 World Series photo. The found ring got posted on Yahoo! Answers. When you think about it, it's kinda miraculous that Hess was able to find out that somebody had found his ring this way. It was his son that saw the notice . . . what are the odds?
Anyway. Hooray for Kate! Honesty is the best policy. It is never wrong.
4 comments:
Neat story.
Since you're into baseball so much, I've got a question for you (I know barely the basics on the sport). When you look at a game's final score, what's it mean when in one of the innings' boxes, instead of there being a number for one of the teams, there's an "X" instead? Thanks :)
You're talking about something called the line score. Like this
BAL 000 000 000 0 4 1
TEX 100 000 00x 1 5 0
This gives you the inning by inning score. In this theoretical game, Baltimore was the visiting team, Texas the home team. Baltimore scored no runs at all for nine innings, while Texas scored one run in the bottom of the first inning. Since they were the home team, and they were leading in the middle of the 9th inning, they win the game, and do not have to bat in that inning. Hence the "x".
The last three numbers show a team's runs, hits, and errors for the game. In this case, Baltimore had no runs, four hits, and one error, while Texas had one run, five hits, and no errors. See?
Oh okay, so it's sorta like how they run the clock sometimes with football games. I'd kinda thought that it was something similar to that...I think what threw me off there a bit, was seeing one of those line scores for a game recently where the "X" was in an earlier inning--thinking was somewhere between 6-8th innings? That made me start thinking maybe the "X" stood for something else, i.e. game ending early due to rain, etc. Thanks, I appreciate the clarification on it! lol
Oh, please! Heresy. :-) You never mention baseball and football in the same breath. Baseball is never, ever considered a game having anything to do with a clock.
On extremely rare occasions, a baseball game can be called before the completion of 9-innings. That is the only time you might see the "x" in an earlier inning. But that is rare, rare.
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