# Young Mackenzie Brown, a 12-year-old Little Leaguer, threw a perfect game, becoming the first girl in the history of Bayonne to throw a perfect game. She struck out 12 batters, including the final six. She was invited to throw out the first pitch of last Saturday's game between the Mets and the Nationals at Citi Field. (Is there any doubt that she threw a strike?) Ninety-nine out of a hundred kids would pop their jersey and start acting like the king (or queen) of baseball if they threw a perfect game. However, comma, 99 out of a hundred kids aren't from Bayonne. Here's Mackenzie, displaying the type of poise, purpose, and sense of priority that's pure, archetypal Bayonne:
Although the perfect game has earned her national attention, including television interviews and seeing her own highlight reel on TV, Brown said the best thing about it is "probably just being able to throw like that," according to the newspaper.Awesome.
# This is a segment from CBS Sunday Morning about my friend's dad. Long story short (and I'll try to make it real short, because you should really watch the video): Jonathan Singer is a podiatrist in Bayonne. He's also a photographer, and he's got a novel technique for photographing flowers (not that novel, of course, since it's derived from the Dutch masters). His photographs are so good that the Smithsonian Institution gave him access to their rare and endangered flower collection, flowers that now appear in Dr. Singer's opus, Botanica Magnifica. They say, without irony or exaggeration, that he's done for flowers what Audobon did for birds. High praise indeed.
Dr. Singer was always an interesting character, but who expects their friend's pal to get a segment on a morning show? Or an article written about him in Vanity Fair? Or write a huge book? Isn't that cool?
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