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Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist
Hugh Pickens submits news first gleaned from a now-paywalled article at the New York Times (and, happily, widely reported) that "The hunt for a copy of the seventh and deciding game of the 1960 World Series, considered one of the greatest games ever played and long believed to be lost forever, has come to an end in the home of Bing Crosby, a canny preservationist of his own legacy, who kept a half-century's worth of records, tapes and films in the wine cellar turned vault in his Hillsborough, California home. Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by radio. Crosby knew he would want to watch the game later — if his Pirates won — so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor. The five-reel set, found in December in Crosby's home, is the only known complete copy of the game, in which Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a game-ending home run to beat the Yankees, 10-9."
unfortunately, I just had an enema, so I can't give a shit
It's a stupid baseball game, a game played by children with sticks. Grow up.
It's amazing?
So if long-lost footage of Mike Smith of Omaha, Nebraska jerking off and drinking Schlitz in his basement suddenly resurfaces, by your logic, that would also be slashdot worthy?
Slashdot is the proper forum for random people finding shit they thought was lost?
Really?
Whatever it takes to justify wasting your life away watching neanderthals hit spheres with a stick.
What the fuck are you knuckle-draggers doing on this site anyway? Shouldn't you be out shotgunning bud light at a frat party or slapping each other on the ass?
This site is for people who contribute to the advancement of modern society, not people who spend their entire adult lives reminiscing on high school while they bag my fucking groceries.
God, I hate jocks.
Yes, we should retire the word "Bing" from the English language unless it's in relation to Bing Crosby.
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You're a fucking troll.