baseball

[ccp]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/shohei-ohtani-50-50-home-run-ball-sells-for-record-amount/ar-AA1sNE8M?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=33a758b923ec4da287abc0744f542df5&ei=36

What if indeed one person forcibly yanked the ball out of another's hands?

Apparently, that is not a problem.  or did the image misrepresent what really happened - maybe both vying for full control of the ball?

[ccp]

even though he has zero power over the those who decide who gets the HOF:

https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/03/02/so-much-winning-for-the-late-pete-rose-n4937474

I still feel Pete has to be kept out to set the example.
Of course he was on of the best most consistent leadoff hitters of all time , but....

[DougMacG]

Alex Ovechkin broke one of Wayne Gretzky's 54 records, regular season goals.

Total points, goals and assists 2857, is a Gretzky record he will never break.

Goals scored in the playoffs (122) is another.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/alex-ovechkin-breaks-gretzky-career-goals-record-1.7503198

[ccp]

Aka Hyman Solomon and some of his Babe Ruth memories:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-14-mn-15646-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Reese

Said of Luke Easter he was the only player who could hit home runs as far as the Babe

Luke was gunned down in a robbery, one of the earliest Black major leaguers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Easter_(baseball)

[DougMacG]

I thought I would move this over to a sports thread. Great story about 'Jimmy Reese', by the way.
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Warren Miller:, narrator of ski films for about 50 years. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DdkawDM69ltw&ved=2ahUKEwjFiPig8teMAxW64skDHQp6K1YQwqsBegQIFBAG&usg=AOvVaw07cuREWto6HDHDvi6LNgux

ccp:
Are you in his videos?

"No, but I bumped into him one time skiing at Big Sky, MT."
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I found the Warren Miller footage from Big Sky skiing that year :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvBP1E3KYpk
 14 minute mark or so. No it's not me but I've skied some of those upper chutes. (I don't do airborne.) By the 25 minute mark they have a tram to the top of Big Sky, no need to hike up anymore. On a clear day you can see across Yellowstone to the Grand Teton, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana from there.

As close as I came to a brush with fame, I was in a promotional video for Park City powder cats. It disappeared on the internet.
This isn't me:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.instagram.com/pccats/reel/CrjOY3cLBN8/&ved=2ahUKEwjn5sSfr-CMAxV6G9AFHRjUMvg4ChCjtAF6BAgJEAU&usg=AOvVaw3zmvb53Qd1m0MatxQJ86wn

I was asked to waterski for a Minnesota tourism video but a thunderstorm hit when we were supposed to shoot and it never happened.

This isn't me either but there are a couple of good waterski turns here:
https://youtu.be/QVi0mOI_03Q?si=J0O-JJ0usSTdtCAH
(Why I live on a lake... )

[Crafty_Dog]

When I was in grade school I regularly skiied at Mt. Mansfield in Stowe VT with my family.   Watching Miller documentaries was part of the ski culture.