Historical fun fact: Thomas Edison and baseball

September 25, 2012

As part of her birthday celebration, I took my wife to the Thomas Edison Museum in West Orange, NJ. She’d been asking to go for a long time and I pretty much have no patience for museums unless there’s a baseball or pop culture connection.

She wanted to buy a refrigerator magnet as a memento and we had a choice of three, one of which depicted an old advertisement for Edison Cement. And there’s the baseball connection.

As the gentleman in the visitors center explained, Edison Cement was considered the best cement of the day. It was used  for the construction of …wait for it…The Yankee Stadium (as it was called in those days). In fact the cement was so good that it took more than the usual effort to deconstruct it.

And, as everyone knows, you can put a refrigerator magnet on a bookshelf, even if it doesn’t stick.

 

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