By Clarice Burger
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Keith Hernandez (born October 20, 1953) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 17 seasons, most notably for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets. Hernandez was a five-time All-Star who shared the 1979 NL MVP award and won two World Series titles, one each with the Cardinals and Mets. Since 1998, he has been a color commentator on Mets television broadcasts.
A contact hitter with a .296 career average and a walk rate of 12.5%, Hernandez’s career hitting productivity was 31% above league average. For his defensive work, he received 11 consecutive Gold Glove awards, the most by any first baseman in baseball history. Hernandez is widely considered the best defensive first baseman of all time.
Hernandez has been a color commentator on Mets games for SNY, alongside former Mets teammate Ron Darling and play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen since the launch of the network in 2006. He has also been a studio analyst for MLB on Fox since 2017.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Diwali (also called Divali or Deepavali) is a festival of lights that celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and the blessings of victory, freedom, and enlightenment. The name comes from Sanskrit Deepavali, meaning “row of lights.”
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
I am a caller at every home where you may meet, For daily I perambulate along each street. Take one letter from me and still you will see. I’m the same as before, as I’ll always be, Take two letters from me, or three or four. I’ll still be the same as I was before. In fact, I can tell you that all my letters you may take, Yet of me nothing else can you make.
Answer: Postman
Born
- Sir Christopher Wren (architect) –
- John Dewey (philosopher) –
- Charles Ives (composer) –
- Jelly Roll Morton (jazz musician) –
- Arlene Francis (actress) –
- Grandpa Jones (country music performer) –
- Art Buchwald (journalist) –
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (psychologist) –
- Mickey Mantle (baseball player) –
- Michael McClure (poet) –
- Jerry Orbach (actor) –
- Tom Petty (musician; Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) –
- Keith Hernandez (baseball player) –
- Viggo Mortensen (actor) –
Died
- Sir Richard Burton (explorer) –
- Herbert Hoover (31st U.S. president) –
- Jane Wyatt (actress) –
- Oscar de la Renta (fashion designer) –
Events
- The town clock in Halifax, Nova Scotia, began keeping time –
- Louisiana Purchase ratified by U.S. Senate –
- 49th parallel determined as western U.S/Canadian border –
- Last day of Prince of Wales’s North American tour, Portland, Maine –
- Canadian newspaper La Presse debuted –
- The first cork-centered baseball, invented by Benjamin Shibe, was used in the World Series in Chicago –
- Laurel and Hardy’s The Flying Deuces debuted –
- Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis –
- John Bardeen became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field. He received the awards in 1956 and 1972 for his theory of superconductivity and development of electronic transistors –
- A plane carrying the group Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in Mississippi –
- Oakland/Berkeley firestorm began in California –
- ABC-TV pulled the plug on Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network television sponsor for the first time in 50 years –
- The Boston Red Sox made baseball history by becoming the first baseball team to lose the first three games of a best-of-seven series, then come back with four victories to win it –
Weather
- Sheridan, Wyoming, experienced a bad snowstorm –
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