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AG/DC Mar 29 2008 10:13 AM

I'm on the floor of the ornate main reading room of the Library of Congress. The great dome is held up by eight pillars --- the capitals etched with the great subjects that hold up our society, COMMERCE, RELIGION, SCIENCE, LAW... . Four stories above me is the viewing platform where tourists gaze down on us from a glassed-in chamber, lest they disburb our work, as they wonder what great thuoghts the men and women below them think. And I think, "Donn Clendenon finished 13th in MVP voting in 1970, the only year he got support. How about that?" Oh, and the answer is yes, the LoC does have their copy of Mets by the Numbers on file. Good of you to ask.

Valadius Mar 29 2008 10:31 AM

What are you doing at the LoC today, Edgy?

metirish Mar 29 2008 10:44 AM

Obviously he was presenting a copy of Mets by the Numbers to the Library. I saw it on C-SPAN.

AG/DC Mar 29 2008 11:11 AM

Valadius wrote: What are you doing at the LoC today, Edgy? As I said, researching the Mets.

Willets Point Mar 29 2008 06:11 PM

Speaking of LC, I meant to post this a few days ago: Historical Baseball Records.

AG/DC Mar 29 2008 08:03 PM

="Valadius"]What are you doing at the LoC today, Edgy? I'm just now realizing that Val meant this as "What are you doing at the LoC today, Edgy?" Hey, I can read! What I didn't know previously was of a print reference to baseball from 1744, a poem called "Base-Ball," from a British anthology called A Little Pretty Pocket Book: The Ball once struck off Away flies the Boy To the next destin'd base And then Home with Joy Not much but pretty remarkable in its existence, especially to know the first reference came in poetry. I also found this quatrain, appropriate to our time, from Edmund Vance Cooke from a poem called "Batter Up," and published in a collection of his baseball poetry called Baseballology: Who cares which politician leads the band? Who cares who'll be the White House tenant? We only know the season's coming, and We know our club is going to win the pennant Not Shakespeare, maybe, but...

KC Mar 29 2008 08:12 PM

Anthem quality that second one.

Valadius Mar 29 2008 08:36 PM

LOL. I meant it simply as wondering what you were doing. I was curious as to your research.