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.
The longest Major League Baseball game in history lasted a mere 8 hours, 6 minutes. And to think: Isner vs. Mahut could have concluded much, much earlier in the day. Isner held a match point all the way back in the 20th game of the fifth set, when he was ahead 10-9 with Mahut serving.