Gentle visitors, the chill winds are still blowing in these parts, but the solar calendar insists that Spring is soon to come. With this in mind, we think it fitting to refer you to a prior post, being poetical exhortation attributed to one Claude Faubush, a native of Ohio.
Mr. Faubush had a varied career that including stints as a sportswriter for the now defunct Mahoning Valley Messenger, a traveling salesman of household utensils and curiosities, and a roaming representative for the Mexican Sweepstakes. In 1939, he pled nolo contendere to a charge of false utterance (passing a bad check) in Chillicothe, Oh.
Thereafter, he seems to have reformed his life, and went on to preach revivals all around the Midwest region. Mr. Faubush was reputedly a second cousin to Rogers Hornsby, and he claimed that his sister-in-law went to school with Bobby Jones.
On that apparent authority, Mr. Faubush penned a brief tract on the relative virtues of baseball and vices of golf.
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