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The movement to create National Pastime Day, a national holiday to be held each year on Opening Day of the baseball season, has begun at Athletics Nation, and Tyler Bleszinski wants my support.
He's got it.
Maybe he can get the U.S. Supreme Court behind it. Listening to NPR on the way home from work last night, Nina Totenberg was continuing her series on the release of the papers of late Justice Harry Blackmun. Totenberg found a note, passed between two justices during hearings on October 10, 1973, of national importance. The note read:
Vice President Spiro Agnew has resigned.
Mets 2, Reds 0.
Looking at Retrosheet, the score was an update just after the first inning of the final game of the National League Championship Series. Big stuff for the highest court in the land.
(By the way, I once got to visit the real "highest court in the land" - a full-length basketball court near the Supreme Court offices. But I digress)
National Pastime Day - the time has come. (Actually, the time has probably already passed, but maybe it can come again.)
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