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Presumably the writer meant that the new stuff would cost one-third as much as the old stuff.
On to more cosmic matters. Milton U. Wiser of Lakeland, Fla., asks the court to admonish The Associated Press for a graphic last fall oh home-run production. The AP’s chart was intended to illustrate a story about Mark McGwire, who reached the 200-home-run milestohe with the fewest at-bats in major league history.
To make its point, the chart provided data on “HR per AB.” Oops! Amazingly, Ralph Kiner was thus credited with 12.69 home runs per time at bat, Babe Ruth was 12.0 HR per AB, and Mark McGwire with 14.2 HR per AB.
Obviously the AP’s chart maker had things exactly backward. The artist meant “AB per HR.”
Otherwise, Ruth would have had 33,282 home runs in 2,580 times at bat. He actually had 200 homers in this period, or roughly one in every 13 times at bat. Not bad hitting.
The court still has a full docket, including a request from an airline captain that the court suppress the speech of gate agents and flight attendants. This raises a First Amendment question of some order of magnitude, but the court forgets which order.
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