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This week’s featured song is "America's Favorite Pastime" by folk singer Todd Snider, a song that was inspired by Doc Ellis's No Hitter. Click here for more on Doc Ellis The Internet Explorer browser is the only one that I know plays the background music.

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Four For Thor!

Romeoville, IL 10/16/09                  Thor Went Wild Attendance 21                  The Reds took an early lead, when Beak stripped the puck from Stump then fired a pass that send Geno in alone on the Brain.  He fired a wicked wrist shot that hit the top shelf to give the Reds a lead just 20 seconds into the game.  The lead didn't last long, because Thor banged a Hacksaw rebound past the Anvil on the next shift.  Hacksaw gave the Whites a 2-1 lead 30 seconds later when he fired an ice hugging shot that John Koss deflected over Eddie's shoulder.  The Anvil thanked his defenseman for his help.  Thor scored again on a pass from TZ to increase the lead to two goals.  Koss made up for the goal that he scored on his goalie, when he cut the lead to one with a shot past the Brain.  Thor picked up his Hat Trick late in the first period

The Rampage ladies want to play us.  I don't know, they practice.

to give his team 4-2 lead after  one period.  That is as close as it got, as V-man scored , then Thor the scoring machine registered his 4th goal of the night!  Mini-Wheezer scored the only goal for the Reds in the 2nd and 3rd periods.  Tommy Z added one more in the closing minutes to make it 7-3, of V-Man may have had 2 to make it 8-3.  (I didn't have T&A to

send me the goal scorers this week, although Geno and The Brain helped me remember Koss' memorable goal.  Thank you. E-Mail from Mike The Nashville Road Trip is scheduled for Thursday March 4th - returning Sunday March 7th. Thursday Morning - Bus will leave for Nashville Thursday Evening - Predators vs. Kings Friday: Duffer Hockey Game Saturday: Duffer Hockey Game, Sunday: return to Chicago by early evening. This week I am confirming game tickets, Ice-time and Hotel rooms.

We will play at Romeoville this year at 9:00 AM on Thanksgiving.

(we are staying downtown - A few blocks from the Sommet Center, Bars, Restaurants) $100 deposit is due asap. Total trip cost will be no more than $600 ea. Let me know if you plan on going.

And Then there were 5 The following Duffers have Perfect Attendance: Beak, Fruitcake, Hacksaw, Magoo and Mini Wheezer.

Boy's mesmerizing goal - Y! Featured - Yahoo! Buzz

Here are some short Videos of Dan's 2 year old son Luke.

	These lovely ladies want to play the Duffers, They practice every week, We never practice.
The 2009 Thanksgiving game will be held at the Romeoville Ice Rink at 9:00 AM	Saturday afternoon, just 12 hours after stumbling in from Wild Wings, I played in an Alumni Basketball game at Holy Trinity High School. There was one injury, a 270 pound guy in his 30s, twisted his ankle in warm ups. That wuss let them call the paramedics.  It took 6 guys to carry him down 3 flights of stairs. If I have one good leg, I'm limping down those stairs and driving home slowly with a stop at a bar to delay the wrath of my wife.  I feel pretty good today, no pains, no pills.  God is good.

20 Years ago I had a Sox Hat and a Stash 

This is my 25 year old grandson 20 years ago when I took him to old Comiskey Park. My students and I got in free and we got free hats.

Doc Ellis

As Ellis recounted it:

"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me."^[4]

The incident inspired the songs "Dock Ellis" by indie rock singer Barbara Manning, "America's Favorite Pastime" by folk singer Todd Snider, "Dock Ellis No-No" by Chuck Brodsky, and "LSD (The Ballad of Doc Ellis)" by Boston rock band Random Road Mother. He's a boss.

[edit] May 1, 1974 game against Cincinnati

Attempting to hit every batter in the Cincinnati Reds lineup on May 1, 1974. In an effort to prove a point to teammates, Ellis hit Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Dan Driessen in the top of the first. The clean-up batter Tony Perez avoided Ellis' attempts, instead drawing a walk, and after two pitches aimed at the head of Johnny Bench, Ellis was removed from the game by manager Danny Murtaugh. Ellis' box score for the game reads: 0 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K.^[5]