Ray Chapman was born in Beaver Dam, Kentucky in 1891. Ten months later and 150 miles away the man who would kill him was born. Ray was an above-average shortstop playing with the Cleveland Indians in the early twentieth century. He led the league in several hitting and fielding categories. He batted .300 in three seasons …
The ispirational word this week on the InspireMeThursday website is “holes”. “There’s nothing wrong with you that a gaping hole drilled into your skull under unsanitary conditions couldn’t cure.” Trepanation. An innocent enough sounding term. Trepanation is an antiquated and misguided medical procedure in which a hole is drilled into the human skull, thus exposing the meningeal layers surrounding …
