Joe the Reader

@Science Guy Pascal was French, and the French word for “law” is “loi.”

@Francis I’m an old Red Sox fan who remembers Elston Howard mainly because he lined a single to right field with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to break up a no hitter by rookie pitcher Billy Rohr in early April of 1967. It was Rohr’s first major league game, and he was never that good again. Howard got traded to the Sox later that season and redeemed himself (from a Boston point of view) by making a great leaping catch and tag at home plate for the final out in a crucial game against the Tigers in Detroit. These plays are indelibly etched In my memory because they were featured in “The Impossible Dream,” a commemorative LP celebrating the season that I got for Christmas in 1967 and listened to about a thousand times. All of which is to say that ELSTON was a gimme for me too. And yes, he was a great player.