Television’s Lucas McCain in The Rifleman made his major league debut on this date in 1949.
Kevin Costner has appeared as a ballplayer in three motion pictures, but I don’t recall if Connors ever did. I guess in those days no one would believe a 6′7″ guy could make for a convincing athlete.
In my "day job," I'm a writer/sports editor for a New Jersey weekly newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
My blog is worth $16,936.20.
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