Before Cobb led off the game, they presented him with twenty-one books about great men, one for each year he had been in the majors. Cobb said that he had only played MLB for twenty years, so they too one back, promising to give it to him in the 2025 season.
Hey that's next year! Quite a long time to make him wait for that last book.
Why were there no results for May 11 and 12th? Were they rained out?
Much more than rained out. A tremendous downpour "gave" Washington its worst flood since 1889. Gary tells us that rain poured across the area from Cumberland, MD and Harpers Ferry, WV, swamping the Potomac down past Washington. Houses were washed away. The river reached fourteen feet at Chain Bridge, just a few feet below the roadway, and sprayed across the walkway. After the rain stopped in DC, people took their furniture out to yards, where it was hit by another cloudburst on May 16th.
I remember seeing historical markers describing that flood when we visited Harpers Ferry. Cool connection to the 1924 season, though it would have sucked to live through.
