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yup, chemical fire...haven't watched the news, yet, but I was giving folks directions from the day gig I been working on west side of downtown. The fire/explosion was north of downtown, situated to wreak further havoc with rush-hour traffic heading homeward north. I told em how to get around it and hit I-35--the "North Freeway," as we call it, lol--past even where traffic normally jams up. Suspect some of them will start using that route everyday...
Have no idea of cause/damages, yet...also, not really surprised: this ain't Houston or Midland, but we still got plenty of chemicals. I used to break toxic waste/chemical leak stories fairly regularly...
Anyway, so far, nobody I know was involved and all my folks got all their fingers and toes...
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Once upon a time, North Fort Worth (which was once a separate city) had two major industries: meat packing and refineries. There still are many of the small chemical plants that were first there to serve those industries.
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There actually was an city called North Fort Worth once. It was such when Rogers Hornsby was a boy there, working in the slaughter houses at 11 years old. He discovered he could play baseball for one of the slaughter house teams and get the same pay without the danger and filth. And I don't care who wants to bring up Cobb or Ruth or Williams, Hornsby was the greatest hitter of all time. Speaker was second. Put Wagner at shot and what strength up the middle. Ruth can pitch. Musial at first, where he played the most. Mantle and Mays have to cede center to Speaker. With the better arm, Mays in right, Mantle in left. Of course, only Robinson can play third. However much I have been thrilled watching Rodriguez catch, he has to accept Bench catching. Like I say, Ruth can pitch, but he can't be the number one.......Matheson, Johnson, Palmer, Joe Wood, Alexander..........
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I lived in North Little Rock for awhile, still separate city, I believe. But never heard of NFW...my cousin, Oliver Knight, wrote one of the standard histories of Funkytown, when *he* was at the Star-Telegram, decades before me, and years before my mother, who worked there about 35 years. will check that out, NFW...cool
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you like baseball, eh? ever heard of the Martin Flores Rule? UIL, Texas high school rules: He went to Carter-Riverside (speaking of the Star-Telegram)...
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I was away from Fort Worth for many years, many out of Texas. I saw how the less blessed live. I didn't have to die to come back. Yup, they do let cowboys in, whatever that song says.
"I saw miles and miles and miles of Texas, Neth the stars up in the sky. I saw miles and miles and miles of Texas. Gonna live here 'til I die."
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Any knowledgabel baseball person knows that Fort Worth and baseball, if not the same topic, are sympothetic subjects. Before TV brought the major leagues into living rooms, various leagues about the country provided stable long lived teams and their championships were as treasured as the World series. In more than one case, players refused opportunities to play in the majors, preferring to remain near home andplay for the Pacific Coast league or the Southern league or the Texas league or others. Although the Texas league was technically "double A" The Fort Worth Cats wer the last minor league team for most of the Dodger's players. The Southern league was "tripple A" and each year it's champion met the champion of the Texas League at the Southern World Series. The Fort Worth Cats won the most Southern World Series. It is generally conceded, even by the most rabid Yankee fan, provided he is relatively well versed in the history of the game, that the Fort Worth Cats were the most dominating baseball franchise ever. So far as those Yankee fans that refuse to recognise anything that doesn't have a NY Yankees emblem on it, if your prrivileged Yankees had ever played in the Southern World Series, the Cats wouldh have beat their butts too.
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I went to several games when they were still playing at the High school field, but LaGrave isn't so easy to get to from out-chere. Anyway, they've gone nuts on parking cost. Back at the original LaGrave Field, the parking lots were gravel, but they were ample and they were free. And I'm not so sure I trust leaving a parked car in that neighborhood after dark (that paid parking ain't safe either, in case you don't read the paper)
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