That changed a world series on a missed call. And im sure they probably wanted it back then too. Itd probably changed their lives a little. [smith] what do you think about limiting mound vits. That was an innovation within the last year or so, right . They intro hced that you could one six mound visits in a game. [clemens] yeah, right. So, i kid out trying to do the speed up in the games. [smith] cause all of our kids have no attention span. They want everything over faster. They think its a video game. [clemens] well, it is, it is. But, you have the, you know, you havei tease my boys about everybodys gotta have a walk up song now so you can walk there and be cool. And all this stuff. You gotta have a walk up song, you gotta have, of course, and your sponsors and everything. So thats gonna take time, too. So, theyre trying to speed it up. In the Minor Leagues they have a pitch clock. But, i just got off the phone two days ago with three minor league guys theyve tut from reallygood pis
[smith] of course we got by without it for years. [clemens] we did, but you got technology and there were a few umpires way back when that changed a worldseries. And im sure they probably wanted it back then too. Itd probably changed their lives a little. [smi] what do you think about limiting mound visits. That was an innovation within the last year or so, right . They introduced that you could only have six mound visits in a game. [clemens] yeah, right. So, i kid em about trying to do the speed up in the games. [smith] cause all of our kids have no attention span. They want everything over faster. They think its a video game. [clemens] well, it is, it is. But, you have the, you know, you have, i tease my boys about everybodys gotta have a walk up song now so you can walk there and be cool. And all this stuff. You gotta have a walk up song, you gotta have, of course, you gotta have your commercial breaks and your sponsors and everything. So thats gonna take time, too. So, theyre tryin
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its the cast of characters through the decades. Those funny animated characters from the comics to saturday morning tv. We grew up with them. We couldnt find a more likeable and relatable group. They taught us what was right and wrong, helped us learn how to of course made us laugh. Today we celebrate some of our very favorite characters, through the decades, because even though we may be grown up now, the truth is we never drifted too far away. They still make us think, laugh and dream. So we begin where it all started, in the sunday paper. Where the debut of both tarzan and buck rogers on the same day later, the start of flash gordon in 1934. This trio of champions triggered a whole movement. They are now a staple of sciencefiction and adventure movies fighting blazing battles of good and evil in highflying spaceships and in exotic kingdoms but hollywood didnt bring them to life. They first captured our imaginations in a very differ
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o