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Old 06-29-2005, 07:01 PM   #1
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It's been 100 years to the day since...

Moonlight Graham had his one appearance in the Major Leagues.

To celebrate, I'm going to watch "Field of Dreams" again tonight .
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Old 06-29-2005, 07:06 PM   #2
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Even after the cornfield appearance, he still did not get an official at bat.
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Old 06-29-2005, 07:10 PM   #3
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Even after the cornfield appearance, he still did not get an official at bat.
How Ironic! Even in heaven he doesn't get to hit the ball.
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Old 06-29-2005, 07:26 PM   #4
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It was kindof cheap and silly, but I liked Jim Caple's article about him on ESPN.com

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Old 06-29-2005, 08:55 PM   #5
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Why does anyone care about MoonLight Graham?
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Old 06-29-2005, 09:10 PM   #6
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Haven't I seen this thread somewhere before?
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Old 06-29-2005, 09:26 PM   #7
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BECAUSE HE WAS IN FIELD OF DREAMS
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Old 06-29-2005, 11:14 PM   #8
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Indeed... anything related to Field of Dreams can't be bad.
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Old 06-30-2005, 03:57 AM   #9
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Why does anyone care about MoonLight Graham?
Cuz He embodied everyone's dream being dashed, but instead of wondering ''what could have been'' he did something positivepost baseball.
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Old 06-30-2005, 09:56 AM   #10
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Haven't I seen this thread somewhere before?

Yes.
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Old 06-30-2005, 09:57 AM   #11
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Exactly a hundred years it ago, it was approx 36,500 days ago.
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Old 06-30-2005, 10:11 AM   #12
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Exactly a hundred years it ago, it was 36,500 days ago.

So who is going to be the huge geek that figures out how many leap years there were in the last 100 years and correct this number?
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Old 06-30-2005, 10:37 AM   #13
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So who is going to be the huge geek that figures out how many leap years there were in the last 100 years and correct this number?

I'm going to guess that there were 25 leap years in the last 100 years, and I didn't even have to use my supergeek powers to figure that.
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Old 06-30-2005, 11:58 AM   #14
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I'm going to guess that there were 25 leap years in the last 100 years, and I didn't even have to use my supergeek powers to figure that.

24, 2000 wasn't a leap year.
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Old 06-30-2005, 12:00 PM   #15
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Yes it was.

Years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless also divisible by 400, I believe. But I know 2/29/2000 happened.
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