Weekend Hot Clicks: On This Day in 1969, Baseball Stood Still

"In April 1964, a 21-year-old English man wrote a letter to William Hill asking the sportsbook what odds it will give him for man to land on the moon," is the start of a cool story about the man who won money from the moon landing.

From the Senators-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium on July 20, 1969:

"As the umpires, according to prior arrangements, waved their arms and stopped play, an urgent voice came over the radio: “Here is a bulletin from WWDC News, Apollo 11 is 100 feet from the surface of the moon. We now switch live to the manned spacecraft center."

"There’ll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run." Read S.L. Price’s fantastic story about the Perry family’s "personal…