Today I’m going to introduce you to the greatest baseball player who never was, Tsang Wong Foo. The year was 1887, and the Chicago White Stockings were looking for more pitchers. They had ace hurler John Clarkson but little else, and so one Milwaukee newspaper decided to dramatize their plight by inventing a new pitcher […]
Month: August 2019
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 – Today in History. Beginning August 25, 1835, and continuing for five more issues, the New York Sun published a series of six articles by “scientist” “Dr. Andrew Grant” claiming a colleague had found life on the moon using a powerful new telescope. The life forms apparently included unicorns, […]