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News clipping mentioning Lewis

Lewis (first name unknown) was briefly a professional baseball player; he played one game for the Buffalo Bisons of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Players' League (PL) on July 12, 1890. Having approached the team for a tryout, Lewis was the starting pitcher for the visiting Bisons against the Brooklyn Ward's Wonders. During the three innings he pitched, Lewis allowed 20 runs, all earned, before being moved to left field, where he played the remainder of the game. The Bisons lost 28–16, with Lewis the losing pitcher; the total of 44 runs set an MLB record that stood until 1922. In the third inning Lewis gave up two home runs to Lou Bierbauer, only the second time a major league batter had hit two home runs in a single inning. The press described Lewis as a "failure", "unfortunate", and a "much disgusted ball tosser" (news clipping pictured). Lewis's earned run average (ERA) of 60.00 and walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) rate of 6.667 were the worst of any pitcher in the one-season history of the PL. (Full article...)

Cromwell House

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Samia Suluhu Hassan

• Samia Suluhu Hassan (pictured) becomes the first female president of Tanzania, following the death of John Magufuli at the age of 61.
• Mathematicians Avi Wigderson and László Lovász share the Abel Prize for their work in complexity theory and graph theory.
• In sailing, the America's Cup concludes with Team New Zealand beating Italy's Luna Rossa Challenge.
• In the United States, a series of mass shootings at three massage parlors in Atlanta leaves eight dead, including six women of Asian descent.

March 23

William McGregor

• 1888 – Chaired by William McGregor (pictured), a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, which would eventually result in the establishment of the Football League.
• 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh, one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities.
• 1991 – The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
• 1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 16-year-old son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.