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Firsthand History- Monday- 1st period
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throughaphaseToday, the students would meet at the causeway for class, where they took a portal for once to... a ballpark.
"Sorry about last week. I was trying not to die of a post-vacation bug. Won't happen again. So, something historic happened this weekend," Kitty said, and if you'd heard her shrieking on Saturday night you knew where this was going. "The Chicago Cubs, a baseball team, won the National League pennant, and will be moving on to the World Series. You might not think this matters, and I'll be hurt if you admit it but I'll understand. But hear me out: the last they made it to the World Series was 71 years ago. The last time they won was in 1908. Let's just say there was a goat, and a curse, and I'm a little worried about invoking wrath so I'm not going to go into it. There is a reason I'm bringing you here, though, besides that I'm the teacher and I want to, but 1908 was 108 years ago. Slavery had ended 43 years prior, and wouldn't have their first black player until 1947. Women couldn't vote yet. New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska weren't states yet. The Titanic hadn't even been built yet. Cars were introduced two weeks before the World Series. Have you ever heard someone say something is the best thing to happen since sliced bread? Sliced bread didn't exist. What I'm getting at is, this is a whole other world you're stepping into.
"Right now, we're at Bennett Park in Michigan, facing off against the Detroit Tigers. Lucky for us this is a record low attendance game thanks to scalping issues, so there's room for us. Since we're kind of going to stand out, we're going to find a quiet place to sit, and watch the game, and nobody jinx us for the future."
"Sorry about last week. I was trying not to die of a post-vacation bug. Won't happen again. So, something historic happened this weekend," Kitty said, and if you'd heard her shrieking on Saturday night you knew where this was going. "The Chicago Cubs, a baseball team, won the National League pennant, and will be moving on to the World Series. You might not think this matters, and I'll be hurt if you admit it but I'll understand. But hear me out: the last they made it to the World Series was 71 years ago. The last time they won was in 1908. Let's just say there was a goat, and a curse, and I'm a little worried about invoking wrath so I'm not going to go into it. There is a reason I'm bringing you here, though, besides that I'm the teacher and I want to, but 1908 was 108 years ago. Slavery had ended 43 years prior, and wouldn't have their first black player until 1947. Women couldn't vote yet. New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska weren't states yet. The Titanic hadn't even been built yet. Cars were introduced two weeks before the World Series. Have you ever heard someone say something is the best thing to happen since sliced bread? Sliced bread didn't exist. What I'm getting at is, this is a whole other world you're stepping into.
"Right now, we're at Bennett Park in Michigan, facing off against the Detroit Tigers. Lucky for us this is a record low attendance game thanks to scalping issues, so there's room for us. Since we're kind of going to stand out, we're going to find a quiet place to sit, and watch the game, and nobody jinx us for the future."