Did you know that William Henry Harrison once proposed to Hannah Cooper, the daughter of William Cooper, who founded Cooperstown, which is now home to the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Everything, my friend, comes back to baseball.

But you Ohioans will always have Mark Hanna—that’s almost like having an effective president from your state.

Oh, and Benjamin Harrison would surely win a “U.S. President Who Looks Most Like Joseph Conrad Contest.”

You think you have it bad?  Try New Jersey- we have Grover Cleveland- he brought the flaming rivers, and Woodrow Wilson he brought the what?- intellectual bent that has been forever imbedded in Secaucus- at least until MLB network was brought in.

Craig - I’m impressed, no easy shot at William “El Gordo” Taft and the need for a new bath tub in the White House in your discussion of Ohio’s presidential history.  Taft was the ‘father of the first pitch’, a great tradition in baseball, and part of the urban myth of the seventh inning stretch tradition as well.

um, i think Benjamin harrison was elected somewhat fraudulently. pathetic or tragic? you be the judge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_of_Five

Interesting point about viruses.  I recently heard someone on the radio who had been studying flu virus and claimed that cold weather (anything less than 40­°F) greatly improves the viability of the flu virus.  The colder temperature also improves the internal environment of the human body so that the virus is much more likely to survive long enough to cause infection.

Unsolicited jab at Bill Simmons?