There are some people who live in a dream world, some who face reality, and those that turn one into the other.

Get Out There

My collection of thoughts and reveries...

Modern baseball had been born in the brain of an American soldier. It received its baptism in the bloody days of our Nation’s direst danger. It had its early evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendship with comrades in arms.” - Albert Spalding

In ancient Greece, the Olympics were competed completely in the nude. Originally, the athletes wore shorts. Then one guy tossed his trunks to run faster, and after he won, everyone followed suit (according to one ancient writer, Pausanias, anyway).

Women were banned from the games. Supposedly… I wonder if guys were allowed to watch.

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