Some anniversaries are heartfelt. Others denote an important benchmark. This anniversary is neither of those things. Instead, the anniversary I speak of today should hopefully tug at your funny bone.
On this date 37 years ago, Bill Murray, then an newscaster on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update", revealed to the world that lovable and English-deficient All-Star second baseman Chico Escuela, played by Garrett Morris, would hang-them-up and end his quixotic comeback to the Major Leagues. As we came to understand, a screamer off the bat of Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey struck Escuela below the belt. That batted ball had rendered him irreversibly infertile.