And I canât be the only one. The length of major league games is growing at a time when Americaâs collective attention span is contracting. According to an article by James Wagner in The Washington Post this past week, the average game 40 years ago was 2 hours 30 minutes.
On 5 October 2017, a false story announcing actor Morgan Freeman had died at the age of 80 began spreading on Facebook and Twitter: legendary actor morgan freeman dead at age 80 Morgan Freeman passed away in his Charleston, Mississippi home early this morning, according to his representatives. An investigation is underway, however the coroner stated his death was likely of ânatural causes.â
He had been awarded rank of Leutinent in the Civil War, however with the U.C.V., he earned the title and rank of General. Late on the evening of June 18th, 1929, at the age of 77, General David Bailey Freeman, the Civil War's youngest confederate soldier, quietly and peacefully died of a heart attack in his apartment in Atlanta, Georgia.