📜 This Day in History – September 24, 1957
The Brooklyn Dodgers played their final game at Ebbets Field.
Before they left, a man changed history on that diamond.
🎩 Ode to Jackie Robinson:
Jackie—number 42—
you bore the weight no one else knew.
You cracked the myth, exposed the lie.
You turned a diamond to sacred sky.
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🗓️ This Day in History – September 6
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. breaks the consecutive games record
That’s not my Tony Stark—
but he might be twice as durable.
Flexing wooden sinews
woven tight around the stock and barrel
of a 30-inch club,
ready to bounce balls straight through
the atmospheric Baltimore
that Poe
pooh-poohed in the ‘80s.
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Lindor on the ball.
Backhand grabs it, turns and throws
Runner out at First
Wittgenstein's Monster
Daytona Slim