The aforementioned Rod Carew is listed 3rd with a batting average of .328. I wont put in the screen shot but from 1976 to 1987 he also batted .328 and was 4th place on the list. He was a consistent hit machine but not a power hitter only hitting 92 homeruns out of 9315 career at bats. I will be making an index of the homerun hitters I did include this year and will be making some lists of who I left out.
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2022 A to Z Challenge Reflection
The aforementioned Rod Carew is listed 3rd with a batting average of .328. I wont put in the screen shot but from 1976 to 1987 he also batted .328 and was 4th place on the list. He was a consistent hit machine but not a power hitter only hitting 92 homeruns out of 9315 career at bats. I will be making an index of the homerun hitters I did include this year and will be making some lists of who I left out.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
V is for Vladimir, Vladimir and Voice
I know this guy Vladimir
He is a true friend ,very dear
His name in Russian means swan
I would like to go on
But a limerick's lengths very clear
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Saturday, April 23, 2022
T is for Tupelo, Thomas & Tower
Good evening and welcome to day 20 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
If I spent the day in Tupelo
Where it's 14 above not below
While water would still freeze
28 more degrees
Would increase by old get up and go
From my Facebook account in the winter of 2014
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Monday, April 18, 2022
O is for Orange, Oliva, and Overt
Good morning and welcome to day 15 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Orange, is a wonderful fruit.
And has vitamin C to boot.
While it's no crime,
That it has no good rhyme.
It does make me want to say "shoot!"
Thursday, April 14, 2022
L is for Lima Beans, (E)L Caballo and Llama
Good morning and welcome to day 12 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
K is for Kilometer , King Kong and Krill
Good Evening and welcome to day 11 of the A-to-Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here. Due to the incredible busyness of my week I am posting more than 16 hours late today. Usually I would post at 4:13 a.m to coincide with the date 4/13. Speaking of 4/13 stay tuned and I will have a special 17th birthday shout out for someone who was born today.
Monday, April 11, 2022
I is for Illinois, Ibanez and Imago
Good morning and welcome to a new week of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Saturday, April 9, 2022
H is for Hammer, Hank, and Hairy
Good morning and welcome to Day 8 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
I was born in 1964. I was 9 years old when Aaaron broke Ruth's record. Aaronhit his first homer in 1954 and his last in 1976. From 1954 to1963 Hank hit 342 home runs. This was 5th most of all players over that time period and only 40 less than Willie Mays who hit the most in that time period.
Friday, April 8, 2022
G is for Grief , Griffey, and Geode
Good morning and welcome to Day 7 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Thursday, April 7, 2022
F is for Freud, Freddie Freeman, and Fugue
Freddie Freeman played for the Atlanta Braves from 2010 to 2021. The Braves are the current reigning World Series champions He recently signed as a free agent with the L.A. Dodgers. Freeman was the 2020 NL MVP and finished 2nd in voting for NL Rookie of the Year in 2011 his first full season.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
E is for Edmonds, Eustace and Equal
Jim Edmonds played Major League Baseball from 1993 to 2010 . He hit his first 121 homers with the Anaheim Angels from 1993 to 1999. It was after he left Anaheim ,in the period between 2000 and 2010 that he was his most prolific at the plate. During that time he hit 272 of his 393 career home runs. (241 with the St. Louis Cardinals, 19 for the Chicago Cubs, 8 for the Milwaukee Brewers, 3 for the Cincinnati Reds and 1 for the San Diego Padres.)
Monday, April 4, 2022
C is for Capital Punishment, Cal, and Codex
Good morning and welcome to Day 3 of the A to Z Challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB Sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z Wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Part I: A to Z Limericks
2 years ago my theme was state capitals. Last month in preparation for this years challenge. With memories of that challenge I wrote this limerick...
I once had a friend in Cheyenne
Who hated his cell phone plan
He got charged for roaming
Without leaving Wyoming
He's better off with a string and a can.
Written in March 2022 in anticipation of the challenge.
Part II: A to Z Homerun hitters of my lifetime
When you think of Cal Ripken you don't necessarily think of home runs. I think of the streak. I think of the period between May 30, 1982 and 9/19/1998 when he started 2,632 straight baseball games. Whit Merrifield of the Kansas City Royals currently has a 467 consecutive game streak. Merrifield would have to play more than 13 seasons to get near that record. Merrifield is already 33 years old. Ripken was 38 when the streak ended.
Yet Ripken was a prolific homerun hitter. He hit 431 homers in his hall of fame career, 242 between 1988 and 1999 all with the Baltimore Orioles.
Part III: Wordle Starting Words from A to Z
Note: Correct letters in the correct places will be shown in bold. Correct letters in incorrect places will be shown in italics.
On March 3, 2022 I started with codex.
C O D E X - This gave me an O in the right place so I followed up with aorta.
A O R T A - In addition to the O, I got a T out of position. My next guess was robin.
R O B I N - This gave me the O and the N and also the R as there was no other space for it. That helped me get Mourn in 4.
M O U R N
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Saturday, April 2, 2022
B is for Bisquick, Bryce, and Bulbs.
Good morning and welcome to Day 2 of the A to Z Challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB Sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z Wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Friday, April 1, 2022
A is for Awana, Allen, and Ample.
Good morning and welcome to another year of the A to Z Challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB Sluggers in my life time, and A to Z Wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
I did not grow up attending the kind of churches that participate in the children's program Awana. So, it was not until Amy and I started our own family that we participated as parents and volunteers.. Awana is a program that among other things promotes the memorization of bible verses from children 2 -18. They are in many ways similar to a youth scouting program and one of their biggest events is the Awana Grand Prix which is very similar to the Pine Box Derbiesthat I participated in as a Cub Scout. Awana is something that worked for out family for many years which I 0ne reason why I penned this limerick 8+ years ago.
Tell folks, tell friends, tell an iguana.
There's plenty of fun at Awana
We learn that God is King
We play games and we sing
But never Hakuna Matata
From My Facebook page 3/5/2014
Sunday, March 6, 2022
A to Z challenge 2022 Theme Reveal
When I guest posted last month at the A to Z challenge blog I kinda did my theme reveal a little early.
Just in case you missed it, I said that this year I will be posting limericks that I have written. Because it's the A to Z challenge, the theme of each limerick will start with a different letter of the alphabet. It turns out that April is National Poetry Month so the timing works out well.
Limerick, Ireland |
Why limericks? It all started almost 9 years ago when I wanted to do something to commemorate my 50th year on the planet. So on Facebook from the day I turned 49 until the day I turned 50, I tried to generate one limerick a day and post it there.
Here is my limerick from 8 years ago, March 6th, 2014
Just allocated our tax refund
Most for debt and a little for fun
Now that I'm done taxing
It's time for relaxing
Watching Star Trek with daughter and son
For the a to z challenge I have chosen 9 of those Facebook limericks and will post them on the appropriate date for the appropriate letter. Many of those FB limericks were about friends having birthdays or such things; don't expect to see any of those here. In the month of March I plan to pen 8 more limericks, and if all goes well produce 9 final limericks in April on the day they drop.
This is where my announcement begins to resemble a late night infomercial, because besides the 26 limericks, you also are going to get 2 more wonderful A to Z products.
As you may or may not know Leap of Dave is a conglomeration of 4 blogs I used to write simultaneously. First, I changed my blog Home School Dad to Leap of Dave. Then I discontinued.my blogs Dave Out Loud (a vlog), Crazy Uncle Dave's Sports Blog and Random Acts of Roller and transferred them here. In the past I have participated in the challenge from all 4 blogs. This year while I will only be participating once, each post will contain 3 separate parts.
After the limerick I will be featuring a baseball player who hit at least 100 career home runs in my life time. In the past at Crazy Uncle Dave's I have done this same type of theme for Chicago White Sox Players and Chicago Cubs Players. There will be some repeats of those players but mostly it will include players from all around the league. To give it more variety I will have at least 5 players whose main homer contributions were in the following periods: 1964-1975, 1976-1987, 1988-1999, 2000-2010, and 2011- 2021.
Nothing says Home Run more than the late "Hammering " Hank Aaron |
So you get A to Z limericks. You get A to Z Sluggers ...
But Wait, There's More!!!
Like many people over the past few months, I have been playing the game Wordle on line. On March 1st my starting word began with the letter A. Each day this month I am starting with the next letter in the alphabet. On April 1st I will share the word that began with A and my subsequent guesses until I finally got the correct Wordle of that day.
A sample Wordle |
So to sum up:
L is for Limericks, Long Balls and Lengthy Wordle explanations.
I am looking forward to sharing my love of poems, baseball and word games with you guys next month. I hope you are all planning on participating this year by at least reading a number of other peoples' posts. If you are thinking about participating in the challenge this year as a blogger, stop thinking about it, and do it! If you have your theme reveal ready, click here and enter it so we can all see what you're up to.
See you guys in April!
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