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A digital moment of silence, perhaps – in light of the unexpected collapse of my NCR electronic calculator, having served faithfully for thirty-five years. The plug was pulled this morning and the oversized math aid was placed in an area of honor at the back of the store.
It was a pioneer in its field. Ol’ Trusty couldn’t be bothered with scientific functions: no sines or cosines, no square roots or such etherial thinking. No, it was the big four that O-T mastered. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. A paper record of transactions? No way. Just the facts, ma’am, on an inoffensive glowing green screen. It came from the days when calculators were the new thing, just like those upstart electronic 4G phones are today. Ol’ Trusty was not 4G. More than likely – 1A Dinosaur.
I’m awaiting a call from the Smithsonian, where it surely belongs.

Autobiography of Cap Anson

They called him CAP – for Captain – or POP, because by the end of his career, he was the old man of the squad, but the self-penned story of Adrian Anson reveals baseball as it was at the turn of the 20th Century. He played most of his career with the Chicago Cubs, although at the time they were known as the “White Stockings” and later, the Colts. His book, A Ball Player’s Career was published in 1900.

It is one of those books you may never see a copy of – it is that scarce. So, take a look!