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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦
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Mean and nasty Canadian. Author of "Play Ball!," a lavishly illustrated, coffee-table book about pro baseball in Vancouver, B.C., now available for sale at Nat Bailey Stadium and the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
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Receptacle for trash and a dumpster.
A green dumpster adjacent to one of Elon Musk's Cybertrucks (aka Intel Camino, WankPanzer, Deplorean, WankerTanker)
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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It's New Jersey, isn't it?
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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"Nobody actually said 'Glue Jays'"

Louis Varland:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly3i7hwe7c&t=2s

Ernie Clement:
www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6955854

CTV:
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/sports/article/glue-jays-values-based-culture-at-heart-of-blue-jays-world-series-run/

Rosie DiManno in the Toronto Star:
A paragraph of purple prose from a Rosie DiManno column in the Toronto Star: "The Cinderella transformation had begun. That strap=yourself-in wild ride, not really a roller-coaster because there few stomach-lurching dips in what followed. A team that had an identity, except few realized it in the early going, became unmistakable for its moxie and intense self-belief, a clubhouse cohesion -- The Glue Jays -- of character and camaraderie they took onto the field, players who genuinely liked one another, loved even. George loved Daulton and Vladdy loved Bo and everybody loved Mad Max.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Looks like the Doors opened for @ronsexsmith.bsky.social in Toronto last night.
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I'd also include Fiorello La Guardia as a democratic socialist predecessor as New York City mayor, in practice if not party membership. Elected as a Republican, but also on the ballot line for the American Labor Party.
1930s campaign poster for the American Labor Party endorsing La Guardia for mayor and Vladeck for Councilman.
October 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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First wrote about this game for the Globe on the 150th anniversary back in 1988:
October 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Damned Yankees.
Donald Trump gives thumbs-up while posing with Yankees players in their clubhouse.
October 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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As predicted in a post from the other site back in 2016:
A screenshot of a Tweet by Tom Hawthorn from Twitter dated Feb. 22, 2016, reads: "How long before roving gangs of trump thugs begin harassing "illegals" on the streets of America?"
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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And what of Werner Finck?

He was imprisoned, released, served in the German Army on the Eastern Front, decorated, survived the war, and lived until age 76, dying in 1978.
Photograph of German cabaret comic Werner Finck holding a pan.
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945. Goebbels had his six children murdered before killing himself on May 1. Convicted and sentenced to death after the International Military Trial in Nuremberg, Goering (below) escaped the hangman's noose by committing suicide the night before on Oct. 16, 1945.
Goering's body shown after he committed suicide. Photograph from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Full article under headline: "Goebbels bars comedians" describes Werner Finck spending a sentence in a concentration camp.
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Newspaper clipping headlined: Not a Nazi Parrot Since Dr. Goebbels put his ban on Herr Werner Finck, the popular Berline compère, for poking mild fun at the Nazi régime, cabaret humorists have been hard put to it to raise laughs. I hear that the compère at the Berlin Scalia Music Hall the other night told a story which some Germans in the audience considered daring. It ran: An advertisement was inserted in a Viennese paper in the following terms: 'Lost -- an African grey talking parrot. Reward if returned. Owner no longer shares political views of parrot.' It had the success of the evening.
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Walter Winchell on Goebbels and Walter Finck:
Lengthy newspaper clipping from a Walter Winchell newspaper column in 1939 describing Walter Finck's cabaret routine in which he carefully wraps up hanging pictures of Hitler, Goering and Goebbelsbefore placing them in a case. Then, just as he is about to leave the stage, he turns around the audiences howled with robust laughter at the sign in huge letters on the box: "FRAGILE — DO NOT CRUSH!"
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Newspaper headline and subhead reads: Goebbels bars comedian: Werner Finck and other cabaret actors banned for jokes about Nazism
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Finally made it to The Nat to see my baseball book on sale at the store. Go, C’s!
September 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Are the Epstein files in the barrel?!
A social media post from the official White House account depicts the Cracker Barrel restaurant logo with Donald Trump replacing the figure of an old man while the restaurant's name is replaced by the slogan America First.
August 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Happy birthday, Gary Larson.
"Far Side" cartoon by Gary Larson: Buzzards gathered around eating some unidentified carrion on the ground in the desert. One buzzard wearing an oversized jacket and hat says: "Hey! Look at me, everybody! I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!"
August 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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People (to cat): Happy International Cat Day!

Cat: There are days when you don't celebrate cats?! WTF.

(RIP Hungry.)
Profile of female tabby cat named Hungry.
August 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Team Bailey here, too. Here is Jan Smithers on the cover of Newsweek in 1966.
August 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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A bonus.

Game day advertisement for the game (Hamilton Spectator, Aug. 21, 1950, p. 26). $1 (Cdn) to see Satchel Paige.
Newspaper advertisement from the Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) on Aug. 21, 1950 reads: Baseball's famous coloured star Satchel Paige of the Philadelphia Stars v. Indianapolis Clowns, Civic Baseball Stadium, general admission $1, box seats $1.50, children 50¢. Mon., Aug. 21, 8 p.m.
July 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I've got a clip of the Aug. 21, 1950, game in Hamilton, Ont., Canada. (Hamilton Spectator, Aug. 22, 1950, p. 24)
Newspaper clipping from 1950 with headline reading: 7,664 get peek at Ole Satch; Paige puts record crowd into ball park
July 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Happy Larry Doby Day to all who celebrate.
Colour photograph of Montreal Expos coach Larry Doby wearing a No. 14 uniform for the Montreal Expos.
July 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Jimmy Swaggart (1935-2025).

Caught a revival meeting in Vancouver when he was on the comeback trail in 1991.

"I feel the presence of God in this building tonight," the preacher's daughter-in-law said.

If so, He had no trouble finding a seat.
Newspaper clipping headlined "Judgment Day" from the Vancouver Province newspaper in 1991. Photograph shows preacher Jimmy Swaggart holding a microphone and pointing at an unseen audience.
July 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Photo shows two lead actors from the show "Dept. Q," a British police procedural.
June 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM