Obscure sports trivia

If he's married to the same woman, she's no golddigger. She works for her family's construction company in Ottawa, Ontario. I think they now have four kids.

 

The only time I felt any real pushback was at our hotel. I am supposed to get an upgrade if available and a late checkout with my credit card and they were really huffy for some reason. Also, I had a lot of loyalty points with the hotel brand because I had put the bill for my annual Super Bowl weekend on my credit card (including a steak dinner and all of the bar tabs) so I had almost 2 of the 3 nights for free. They told me have them process it at checkout and when I tried to, they really gave me a hard time. Had to get the manager involved.

Otherwise, people were super friendly.

 

I couldn't find any pertinent bio info on him, leads me to believe they aren't married anymore. But I don't know.

 

According to "Chili Dog MVP," written in 2021, he lives with his wife in Ottawa, where they raised four daughters as he helped her with the family construction business after leaving baseball.

 

I’ve previously been to Montreal a few times many years back. It always took me aback when I’d see signs for “Speed Limit: 90” and then realize they meant kilometers.

 

Turns out Mrs. W and I got an unwanted memory of Montreal. She tested positive for Covid on Sunday and I did this afternoon. Le Covid.

 

Found this online and thought it’d be a fun question:

1940 NL batting champion Debs Garms also was a brother-in-law to 1920s-era A’s and Red Sox pitcher Slim Harriss. Both of them also share this unique distinction involving their birth names. What is this unique distinction?

 

Oh man

 

So it’s been a while, and no takers. The answer is that both of these baseball brothers-in-law were named after losing presidential candidates.

Debs Garms was named after socialist Eugene Debs. Slim Harris’s’ full name was William Jennings Bryan Harriss.

 

Slim Hariss had the bad luck to pitch for the Philadelphia A's in the early-mid 1920s, when they were horrible, and to then get traded to Boston - which was awful - for Howard Ehmke just when the A's were building toward their 1929-31 dynasty. The A's included Baby Doll Jacobson in that deal, which might be MLB's all-time nickname trade.

 

Baron/mc, no disrespect intended at all but trying to absorb all your information there made my head hurt.

 

I am reading "Baseball's Brief Lives," and one of the entries is on Billy Herman of the Cubs/Dodgers. His given name was William Jennings Bryan Herman.