Is Mr. Danforth well known?
I would say he is, even though I didn’t know about him until reading ‘I Dare You!’
Other famous people, yea, there are a few others from Missouri.
Who? Well there’s…
The James boys like we discussed,
Maya Angelou, “Ma” Barker, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Chuck Berry, Calamity Jane, Dale Carnegie and a little baseball player who was the catcher for the Yankee’s.
Yep, your learning… Yogi Berra.
Yogi-ism, “When you come to a fork in the road… take it.”
Did you know he once went 500 at bats without striking out.
He was looking pretty proud of that stat when he relayed it to the interviewer on the show I was watching.
He said, “Not many people talk about that.”
(Bleachereport.com Berra made 656 plate appearances, hit .322/.383/.533, and, get ready for this, he struck out 12 times.)
Just so you know, that’s hard to do.
Another famous ball player was a friend of Yogi’s, Joe Garagiola.
He said, “We could hit so good because we had to play with broomsticks and bottle caps when we were kids.”
Riiiight, I saw that interview when my kids were little, guess what they grew up playing and hitting in the yard?
Tapeball baby!!
And my oldest son hit a lot of bottle caps, no, not the old school kind. The new plastic white ones.
They fly funny when pitched and were hard to hit, but he could do it.
My kids and their friends loved to play tapeball in the yard.
I knew my oldest daughter was all girl the day we begged her to play.
She steps up to the plate and with the first pitch, SMACK! homerun, right through the maple tree.
Everybody was excited, it was cool!
Next pitch, SMACK!, homerun! I was like, “what the heck?”
She tosses the bat aside and say’s, “this is dumb.”
We all just sat there, mouth’s hanging open, looking on in disbelief.
She just stood up there and smacked two home runs like it was nothin’! And that tapeball is tiny.
I laugh every time I think I about that.
Something about girls?!?!?
Look at those ladies from Missouri, those are some big names in history buddy.
We can stop here.
So you can practice building a campfire.
Everybody needs to know how to start a fire.
Especially a man.
It’s a basic survival skill, you can’t just pick it up at Target.
What? No lighter. Well that’s lesson #1.
Be prepared.
Here use mine.
I have a couple chairs stashed out here by my deer stand, I’ll grab those while you get the fire going.
We can sit and discuss Mr. Danforth’s ‘Four Square’ plan and how he dares us, even today to take action in our lives.
I’ll just be gone a minute.
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