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INSIDE Best of the Net . . . . . . . . . PAGE 3

What started the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys? Fifty State Fun Facts . . . . . PAGE 4

By Kane Casolari Summer is here and baseball season is in full swing. This week, Gist Weekly brings you some fun facts about America’s national pastime. •

Many of us know at least one hardcore baseball fan who can rattle off players’ home runs, batting averages, RBIs, and other stats. The analysis of baseball statistics is called sabermetrics. The term gets its name from the Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR for short.

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The song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” well known among baseball fans and non-fans alike, was written in 1908, with Jack Norworth penning the words and Albert Von Tilzer supplying the tune. Neither of them had actually seen a baseball game when they wrote the song. In fact, Von Tilzer did• n’t see a Major League Baseball game until 20 years later and Norworth saw his first MLB game 32 years after writing the song that would eventually become the third most commonly sung song • in the U.S. (after “The StarSpangled Banner” and “Happy Birthday to You”).

Which famous World War II invasion occurred 65 years ago this week? This Week in History . . . . . PAGE 5

Which popular children’s author would be 90 this week? Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 5

What is the “27 Club”? By the Numbers. . . . . . . . . PAGE 6 And more including: Crossword—PAGE 2 Trivia Quiz—PAGE 3 Cectic comic strip—PAGE 5 Sudoku—PAGE 6 Classifieds—PAGE 7

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Long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans probably know that their favorite team has gone longer than any other without winning a World Series, having last won it

in 1908. They can take some comfort in knowing that there are three teams that have never won the pennant: the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and Washington Nationals. At the other end of the World Series-winning spectrum are the New York Yankees, who have won 26 of the 104 World Series to date. Baseball cards first appeared in the 1860s as advertisements with a player’s picture on the front and a company’s ad on the back. Soon, they were included in packs of cigarettes, chewing gum, and other products before eventually being sold in packs containing only the cards.

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Word Search: Baseball

FUN AND GAMES Scavenger Hunt

Find the following words in the grid above. They may be forward, backward, up, down, or diagonal.

Search this issue of Gist Weekly to find the pictures and words listed below. They may be anywhere in the issue, in articles, Image: MS games, or ads. (No, finding them in this box doesn’t count.) Answers are on page 8. Text

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Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.

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Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

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A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

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Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t go to yours.

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Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died.

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I’m as red as a sheet.

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Pair up in threes.

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(After being asked how many slices he wanted his pizza cut into) Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.

Find your way from the upper-left corner to the lower-right

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ACROSS 1. Actress who played the title role in Driving Miss Daisy* 6. Saturate 10. Boardroom bigwig 13. Skip ___ 14. Sled 15. Baseball stats org.* 16. Thwarted 18. Race pace 19. Adhesive material

Retired New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra is well known for his (accidentally) humorous quotes. Here are a few favorites.

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Yogi-isms

20. Civil War side 21. Extracts 23. Clears 24. Arm again 25. Detestable 28. One of the three MLB teams that has never won the World Series* 31. Woman in charge of a household 32. Postpone

33. Wreath of flowers 34. Impressed 35. Deliver an oration 36. Little lies 37. Sew 38. Certain exams 39. Dimensions 40. Acrimony 42. Entirely 43. Havens 44. Hawaiian goose 45. Married woman 47. Highest point 48. Taxicab 51. Capital of Yemen 52. Make three identical copies 55. Cans 56. Sicilian volcano 57. Slangy denials 58. 911 respondent 59. Distribute cards 60. Secluded valleys Down 1. The 27th President of the U.S.* 2. Magician’s opening 3. Prefix with -algia 4. “___ Boot” 5. Rare metallic element 6. Thick slices 7. There are 54 of them in a nineinning game of baseball* 8. Period of human life 9. Rice dish

10. Convert into caramel 11. Black 12. Crumbs 15. Uncompromising 17. Clarets 22. Den 23. Highway 24. Floating platforms 25. City in Nebraska 26. Coolidge’s veep 27. Unchanged when multiplied by itself 28. Containing meal 29. The Unknown ___ (Tiananmen Square figure)* 30. Effeminate boy 32. Mild oaths 35. Fixed 36. Process of combustion 38. About 39. Louis XIV* 41. Merits 42. Resound 44. Monarchy in the Himalayas 45. Spouse 46. Take ___ view of 47. ___ colada 48. Headland 49. Rate ___ (be perfect) 50. 1940s first lady 53. 66, e.g.: abbr. 54. Newspaper div. *Starred clues have answers that can be found elsewhere in this issue Solutions to all puzzles are on page 8

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TRIVIA QUIZ

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Each question below relates to the topic of a feature in this issue of Gist Weekly, but is not answered in it. Answers are on page 8. 1. Baseball Trivia (Page 1): Who currently holds the MLB record for most career home runs? 2. Fifty State Fun Facts: West Virginia (Page 4): Which West Virginia Senator is the longestserving member ever to be in the U.S. Senate? 3. This Week in History (Page 5): On D-Day, the Normandy coast was divided into five sections. Four of them were codenamed Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword Beaches. What was the fifth, named after a U.S. state? 4. This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays (Page 5): What was the name of Mark Wahlberg’s hiphop group when he was known as Marky Mark? 5. By the Numbers: 27 (Page 6): Which Grey’s Anatomy star played the female lead in the 2008 romantic comedy film 27 Dresses?

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Lifehacker is a site full of—as the name suggests—“life hacks.” While a computer whiz may hack his or her machine to tweak it to his or her liking, Lifehacker’s tips and how-to articles give readers suggestions on tips, tricks, and tools that will make help Personally, I have been checking Lifewith specific tasks or make them hacker regularly (at least once a day) more productive in many areas of life. for a couple of months now and occasionally coming across their articles Many of Lifehacker’s articles feature for many more months. The site has computer programs that help with helped me find the tools to tweak my certain tasks, such as organizing your computer to my wants and needs—I collection of MP3s (or other digital now have dozens of custom keyboard music files); customizing your comshortcuts set up with AutoHotKey puter’s desktop to display calendars, (which I used before discovering

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The official motto of West Virginia is Montani Semper Liberi, Latin for “Mountaineers Are Always Free.”

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West Virginia became its own • The first 4-H camp was Camp state after an 1861 referendum, Good Luck, established in 1915 when voters from 41 counties in Randolph County, West Vircast their votes to secede from ginia. Virginia—then part of the Con• The legendary feud between the federacy. Hatfield and The new McCoy families state was took place along officially the border beadmitted to tween West Virthe Union ginia and Kenon June 20, tucky. Most of 1863. West Virginia’ state flag the McCoys West Virlived in Kenginia has the lowest percentage of tucky and the Hatfields in West immigrants from other countries Virginia. The feud started when a of any U.S. state with just 1.1% of McCoy was killed after returning West Virginians born outside the from fighting for the Union durUnited States. ing the Civil War. The suspected killers were a group of exWest Virginia has the third-lowest Confederate soldiers that may (or 48th highest) per capita inhave included at least one Hatcome of all U.S. states, beating field. The families later fought only Arkansas and Mississippi. over ownership of a hog that lead to a Hatfield being killed by A lower percentage of West VirMcCoys. The feud lasted from ginian adults have bachelor’s de1878 to 1891, with more than a grees than any other state, at dozen members of the families 15.3%. killed in their dispute. The HatCoal is a major industry in West fields and McCoys agreed to end Virginia. The state produces more their fighting in 1891. In 1979, coal than any other state except members of the two families Wyoming. competed against each other in a much more lighthearted feud— West Virginia is in the Appalathe game show Family Feud. chian mountain range and is the

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This Week in History •

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June 3, 1889: Construction of the first United States long-distance power line in the United States is completed, linking a generator in • Willamette Falls, Oregon, to downtown Portland. June 4, 1919: Congress passes the 19th Amendment, sending it to the states for ratification. When the amendment passes, it grants voting rights to women.

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June 5, 1989: During the Tiananmen Square protests, an anony-

invasion, but is more commonly known today by the name “DDay.” June 7, 1654: France’s Louis XIV, later nicknamed “the Sun King,” is officially coronated as King of France. His reign becomes the longest of any European monarch in recorded history, at over 72 years. June 8, 1789: James Madison introduces the Bill of Rights to the First United States Congress. Ten Photo by CPHOM Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard (from WC, PD)

Allied soldiers storm Omaha Beach, Normandy on D-Day, 65 years ago this Saturday

mous protestor later nicknamed “Tank Man” or “the Unknown Rebel” stops a column of tanks by standing in front of them. • Photos and video of the event gain international attention overnight. •

June 6, 1944: Roughly 155,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, a region of France, in the largest amphibious attack in military history. The Battle of N ormandy was codenam ed “Operation Overlord” before the

of the proposed 12 amendments are later ratified and go into effect on December 15, 1791. June 9, 1954: During hearings regarding the possible infiltration of Communist agents in the U.S. Army, the Army’s head attorney Joseph Welch criticized Senator Joseph McCarthy’s actions during the so-called “Communist witch hunts,” famously asking him, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

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This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays Olympic swimmer Katie Hoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 3, 1989 Comedian Horatio Sanz (Saturday Night Live) . . . . . . . June 4, 1969 Singer and actor Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, I ♥ Huckabee’s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 5, 1971 Comedian Colin Quinn (Saturday Night Live) . . . . . . . . . June 6, 1959 Author Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine, “The Red Convertible”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 7, 1954 Singer and songwriter Boz Scaggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 8, 1944 Comic book artist George Pérez (The New Teen Titans, Crisis on Infinite Earths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 9, 1954 Clipart: MS

Historic Birthdays This Week Blues guitarist Jimmy Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 3, 1924 Scots army officer Patrick Ferguson, designer of the Ferguson Rifle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 4, 1744 Children’s book author and illustrator Richard Scarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 5, 1919 Painter Diego Velázquez (Las Meninas) . . . . . . . . . . . . June 6, 1599 Actress Jessica Tandy (Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 7, 1909 Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA Francis Crick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 8, 1916 Composer and lyricist Cole Porter (Kiss Me, Kate; “Night and Day”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 9, 1891

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—MATCH UP— Answers Conchata Ferrell—Berta (Two and a Half Men) Jennifer Garner—Sydney Bristow (Alias) Don Knotts—Barney Fife (The Andy Griffith Show) Christopher Sarandon—Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

—TRIVIA QUIZ— Answers Barry Bonds, with 762 (as of press time) Senator Robert Byrd, who has been in office since 1959 Utah Beach The Funky Bunch Katherine Heigl

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