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captainsblogFrom the classic 1970 work Ball Four, about a sport I am still not talking about here, written in its author's season diary on September 15, 1969:
On our trip from Atlanta to San Diego we had a stopover in Dallas at Love Field. There's a huge statue of a Texas Ranger in the terminal and it's inscribed: "One Riot, One Ranger."
...I find it interesting that of all the things Dallas could have chosen to glorify in its airport, it chose law enforcement. The only thing I know about Dallas law enforcement is that its police department allowed a lynching to occur on national television. Maybe the statue should have been of a group of policemen at headquarters, with an inscription that read: "One Police Department, One Lynching."
Or, after Monday night's episode, make that statue order a double.
On our trip from Atlanta to San Diego we had a stopover in Dallas at Love Field. There's a huge statue of a Texas Ranger in the terminal and it's inscribed: "One Riot, One Ranger."
...I find it interesting that of all the things Dallas could have chosen to glorify in its airport, it chose law enforcement. The only thing I know about Dallas law enforcement is that its police department allowed a lynching to occur on national television. Maybe the statue should have been of a group of policemen at headquarters, with an inscription that read: "One Police Department, One Lynching."
Or, after Monday night's episode, make that statue order a double.