Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 03, 2019

Considering this cartoon’s home town, I was expecting Al Kaline, Mickey Lolich, Hank Greenberg or one of that crowd. Ty Cobb was a great player, but probably has too much baggage to get anything at all named for him these days.

Ruth

They tried to play baseball in the Coliseum, but the Lions kept eating the Senators.

Quit messing with my birth month! Not everybody has need for speckle tater sports.

I often wish history had been the way I wanted it and not the way it was. Then I roll over and go back to sleep.

Might be a fun idea at that. Wonder how many years ahead the printers are at this point. Could wipe all the phony holidays and made-up celebration days/months at the same time. R-i-i-i-ght.

If he had used Al Kaline readers would have wondered why March was being renamed for a misspelled battery.

I just left a conversation and wonder why so many people think THEIR weather is being experienced by others. Or stranger, why the schedules of others should be tweaked to my weather.

If the Roman Empire had played Baseball instead of fighting, there never would have been a Roman Empire.

Williams

January, February, Musial, April…that sounds ok.

Why stop at one month? January, February, Mays, Aaron, Musial, Koufax, Robinson, Gibson, Mantle, Jackson, November, December.

The advent of warm weather also means it’s time to start planting. The Roman goddess of grains was Ceres. It would’ve been so much more pleasant — dare I say warmer? — if we’d named the month “Cereal” in her honor.

The Ancient Romans had plenty of sports:

“The Romans also had several forms of ball playing, including one resembling handball. Dice games, board games, and gamble games were popular pastimes”

“The youth of Rome, as in Greece, had several forms of play and exercise, such as jumping, wrestling, boxing, and racing.”

Source: http://www.crystalinks.com/romesports.html

January, February, Dimaggio, Robinson, Orr, Russell,…It just goes on.

I thought March was named for Mark Antony? Like July is named for Julius Caesar.

But “Maggio” is Italian for May….

As Asterix would say “the Romans are crazy.”

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The gods of humor taunted me with this one. Talk about low-hanging fruit. If you want a baseball god in the spring, wouldn’t the line go “January, February, March, April … Mays”? It would, but sometimes low-hanging fruit can be a little soft, and Mays would have been a little late in both the year and the pattern. Say hey, anyway. You don’t swing at every pitch. You don’t even swing at every good pitch. You try for the best one.