Week 23's Fact or Fiction

[Jangar]

The New York Yankees adopted a pinstripe uniform to help Babe Ruth appear slimmer.

[dudette]

Babe Ruth was fantastic, but not that great ... Fiction

[penelope]

The New York Yankees adopted a pinstripe uniform to help Babe Ruth appear slimmer.

I guess fiction

[Jangar]

:thumbs:

The Yankees adopted their pinstripes Apil 11, 1912, eight years before Babe Ruth was on the team. They bought Ruth's contract from the Boston Red Sox in January 1920. A year later, the Yankees clinched the first of their 37 American League pennants.

The first staples for fastening paper were made from brass.

[sooibrand]

sounds like fact

[penelope]

I guess fiction

[dudette]

When in doubt go with Penelope


Fiction

[Toktokkie]

I go with Sooibrand. Fact.

[penelope]

When in doubt go with Penelope


Fiction

:haha: :haha:

[Jangar]

Well done to those that said...

Fact

:thumbs:

When brass wire paper fasteners were invented in the mid-1860s, George W. McGill recognized the need for a machine to insert the handy little gizmos. He produced such a device by 1866. However McGill's invention handled only one staple at a time. The first patent for a stapler that could hold a row of preformed staples was granted to William J. Brown Jr in 1887.

Julius Caesar revised the Roman calendar for political reasons, not to produce an accurate account of days and years.