1973's Battle...

Miss Kelly: Happy Birthday. Ditto R J Cioppi. This day in 1973, also a Thursday, Billie Jean King put away Bobby Riggs in a 'battle of the sexes' at the Houston Astrodome in two straight sets. At the time all the pomp and circumstance attempted to make for an even playing field between the genders. Mind you, Bobby was 55 and Miss King was 30. Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford called the play by play and it was a fun time for all...

Jim Croce would perish in a plane crash the very same day in Natchitcohes La. A gifted writer and musician taken away way too soon. To date I still get a lump in the throat when I hear the mortality of the words 'Time in A Bottle' and 'Operator'. What could have been...

Red Sox nation licks it's wounds as the Yankee faithful pay homage to 1949, 1978, 1999, and 2003. I still think Boston will pull away and Eric Gagne returns to Texas. Just a prediction...

Over and out in Big D

Mr Will