I didn’t know him well, but in the two times I played golf with him I learned much about life and learned techniques guiding me to be a successful boss.

Sparky believed and has been quoted as saying, “Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.”

Almost ten years ago at Cooperstown Sparky said,” I got good players, stayed out of their way, let them win a lot and then just hung around for 26 years”

Most of my staff has been with me for many years and I would vote for each of them to be on an All Star Team… and I thank Sparky for that as I remember his passing and his life.

MANDIBULAR HYPER-EXTENSION

In motor vehicle accidents, particularly in a rear end collision, the suddenness of the impact, snapping the head backward, happens so quickly that the anterior neck muscles do not have a chance to relax.

As a result, they act as an anchor on the mandible holding it still and forcing the mouth excessively open, as the head continues to move backward into hyper-extension.

This action, the whipping excessively open of the mouth and its subsequent closure into normal position, results in self-reducing dislocation of the temporomandibular joint.  The masticatory and cervical musculature, ligaments, and the synovial tissues of the temporomandibular joint are simultaneously injured.  A frequent result of this type of injury is the anterior displacement of the TMJ disc and posteriorization of the mandible as seen in Fig. 19.

This injury is particularly important because it has been well documented that 60% of the people involved in motor vehicle accidents do not fully recover.  The same studies also clearly demonstrated that many of the people who do not fully recover continue to suffer from a temporomandibular joint dysfunction that is directly related to the accident, but in fact, HAS GONE UNDIAGNOSED.

The anterior displacement of the TMJ disc has been demonstrated to be the primary etiology of progressive disease, which results in degenerative arthritis.

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GEOGRAPHY FACTS

Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .

Amazon

The Amazon rain-forest produces more than 20% the world’s oxygen supply.

The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.  The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .

Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Ninety percent of the world’s ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy  percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

Brazil

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘ Big Village .’

Chicago

Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Detroit

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Los Angeles

Los Angele’s full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula — and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

New York City

The term ‘The Big Apple’ was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930’s who used the slang expression ‘apple’ for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time – The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin , Ireland ; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy ; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel .

Ohio

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is man made.

Pitcairn Island

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia , at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

Rome

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome , Italy in 133 B.C.  There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world’s forests.

S.M.O.M .

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta  (S.M.O.M). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican.  It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.

Sahara Desert

In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.
Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island . There has been no rainfall there for two million years.

Spain

Spain literally means ‘the land of rabbits.’

St. Paul , Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota , was originally called Pig’s Eye after a man named Pierre ‘Pig’s Eye’ Parrant who set up the first business there.

Roads

Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A : 1%, in Canada : 75%

Russia

The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia . It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen – so massive that the mud coming from the hole was ?boiling? with it.

United States

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

Waterfalls

The water of Angel Falls (the World’s highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .

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- Dr. Richard Klein

Michigan Head and Neck Institute