And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Williams is rumored to have had eyesight sharp enough that he could discern the stitching on the ball as it left the pitcher's hand and came toward him, and thus know the pitch that was coming.
Ted and Babe Ruth had about 20/10 vision - the Babe could read a license plate when 20/20 people couldn't tell the color. The vision also helped Williams as a Marine aviator and a great hunter & fisherman. And yes, it is Jim Thorpe on the left.
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ReplyDeleteTed Williams and Jim Thorpe?
ReplyDeleteBingo! Jim Thorpe is the hard one.
DeleteBaseball star Ted Williams in the right
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ReplyDeleteTed Williams is purported to have said, "The best job that I ever had was being a US Marine."
ReplyDeleteWilliams is rumored to have had eyesight sharp enough that he could discern the stitching on the ball as it left the pitcher's hand and came toward him, and thus know the pitch that was coming.
ReplyDeleteTed and Babe Ruth had about 20/10 vision - the Babe could read a license plate when 20/20 people couldn't tell the color. The vision also helped Williams as a Marine aviator and a great hunter & fisherman. And yes, it is Jim Thorpe on the left.
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