Zugzwang - add this to your vocabulary but avoid it in your life. It is a chess term which describes a situation where all moves available to the player will worsen his position. But in chess as in life, the clock ticks and the player must move or resign. This bit of trivia did not come from Bob O'Grady who is still in mourning. OG, for those who do not know, is thebiggest Phillies fan living outside Pennsylvania. The little known fact came from one of my wife's friends whose husband watched too much baseball before she divorced him. Best I can tell and damning as it is to our sex, the fact is true.
A LITTLE KNOWN BASEBALL FACT:
The first testicular guard (Cup)
was used in baseball in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1934. It took
60 years for men to realize that the brain is also important..
Grades are no longer posted in the corridors of this place. But for some, it still evokes the material of bad dreams.