2007 July 17

Charles Kimball, a Baptist minister and author with a doctorate in religious history (specializing in Islamic studies) from Harvard, has been a professor at Wake Forest University since 1990 where he has made a career out of speaking about the ways in which religion becomes evil. His background in negotiations with militant students in Iran, [...]

Sound crazy? I thought so until I read about Lena Blackburne’s Baseball Rubbing Mud.
The custom of rubbing the shine from new balls was established in 1920 after Cleveland Indians’ star shortstop, Ray Chapman, was struck in the head and killed by an errant pitch. The tragic beanball was an accident blamed on the slickness [...]