Shortest Major League Baseball Career<\/b><\/p>\n
The record for the shortest major league baseball career probably belongs to a member of the old Brooklyn Dodgers, a pitcher named Harry Hartman. He was a gifted young ballplayer whose day of glory arrived in 1918 when he was called up from the minors to pitch against the Pittsburgh Pirates. This was the moment he\u2019d dreamed about, the beginning of a great career, but his dreams began to fade when his first pitch was hit for a single. The next batter tripled. Rattled, he walked the hit for a single. The next batter tripled. Rattled, he walked the next batter on four straight pitches, and when he did throw a strike to the next hitter, it went for a single. At that point, Hartman had had enough. He headed for the showers, dressed, and walked out of the stadium to a naval recruiting office, where he enlisted. The next day, he was in a military uniform, never to be heard from in professional baseball again.<\/p>\n
Gary Inrig, A Call to Excellence, (Victor Books, a division of SP Publ., Wheaton, Ill; 1985), p. 62<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Quit \u2026<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 In prayer, Luke 18:1<\/p>\n
\u2022 In perseverance, confidence, 2 Cor. 4:1<\/p>\n
\u2022 In hope, 2 Cor. 4:16<\/p>\n
\u2022 In work, Gal 6:9<\/p>\n
\u2022 In trusting, Eph. 3:13<\/p>\n
\u2022 In well doing, 2 Thess. 3:13<\/p>\n
\u2022 In patience under chastening, Heb. 12:5<\/p>\n
From the Book of 750 Bible and Gospel Studies, 1909, George W Noble, Chicago<\/p>\n
Quote<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Ten years ago for every wife who left her family, 600 husbands did. Today for each man who leaves, two women do. <\/p>\n
Starting Over, Swindoll, 1977, p. 20.<\/p>\n
When Things Go Wrong<\/b><\/p>\n
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you\u2019re trudging seems all up hill,<\/p>\n
When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don\u2019t you quit.<\/p>\n
Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out;<\/p>\n
So don\u2019t give up, though the pace seems slow – For you may succeed with another blow.<\/p>\n
Often the goal is nearer than it seems to a fain and faltering man,<\/p>\n
Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor\u2019s cup. And he learned too late when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown.<\/p>\n
Success is failure, turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar;<\/p>\n
So stick to the fight when you\u2019re hardest hit, It\u2019s when things seem worst that you mustn\u2019t quit.<\/p>\n
Anonymous<\/p>\n
All My Debts Were Paid<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI often wish that I could lie down and sleep without waking. But I will fight it out if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n
So wrote one of the bravest, most inspiring men who ever lived, Sir Walter Scott. In his 56th year, failing in health, his wife dying of an incurable disease, Scott was in debt a half million dollars. A publishing firm he had invested in had collapsed. He might have taken bankruptcy, but shrank from the stain. From his creditors he asked only time. Thus began his race with death, a valiant effort to pay off the debt before he died.<\/p>\n
To be able to write free from interruptions, Scott withdrew to a small rooming house in Edinburgh. He had left his dying wife, Charlotte behind in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt withered my heart,\u201d he wrote in his diary, but his presence could avail her nothing now. A few weeks later she died. After the funeral he wrote in his diary: \u201cWere an enemy coming upon my house, would I not do my best to fight, although oppressed in spirits; and shall a similar despondency prevent me from mental exertion? It shall not, by heaven!\u201d<\/p>\n
With a tremendous exercise of will, he returned to the task, stifling his grief. He turned out Woodstock, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous, and other works. Though twice stricken with paralysis, he labored steadily until the fall of 1832. Then came a merciful miracle. Although his mental powers had left him, he died September 21, 1832, happy in the illusion that all his debts were paid. (They were finally paid in 1847 with the sale of all his copyrights.)<\/p>\n
Thomas Carlyle was to write of him latter: \u201cNo sounder piece of British manhood was put together in the eighteenth century of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bits & Pieces, August 20, 1992, pp. 16-18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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