The GoFather Of Math: Jackie Robinson, Campanella, Snider, Newcombe, + Ernie Banks

It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART

I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO

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Friday, December 20, 2019

Jackie Robinson, Campanella, Snider, Newcombe, + Ernie Banks

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One billion and one
is a low estimate
of the number of
baseball fans
who have known
and loved
the five
Hall of Famers
named above

To quote John Lennon,

Imagine
...
a baseball game
featuring

JACKIE ROBINSON

ROY CAMPANELLA

DUKE SNIDER

DON NEWCOMBE

and

ERNIE BANKS

all around a baseball diamond

shining with their stellar

baseball talents

and less than seven thousand people

paid to see them play