One of its members was Thomas Jefferson, a lawyer from Virginia. He had been a leader in Virginia, and Virginia had elected him to the Continental Congress. The others on the committee were too busy with the revolution to work on the declaration, so Jefferson wrote it alone.
Major League Baseball is vowing to shorten the average length of its games. Officials have other ideas in mind in an effort to move things along. Last year's average was 2 hours and 54 minutes. Under the theory that most baseball games should not last longer than Ben-Hur, action is being taken.
Major League Baseball could probably use a few players with Bancroftâs initiative after a season in which the average game length, according to Baseball-Reference.com, increased to three hours after M.L.B. in 2015 had proudly credited its new pace-of-game rules with lowering the time by six minutes, to 2:56.