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.
But if youâre expecting baseball to cycle back as Americaâs favorite game, youâll need to wait. And wait. And wait. A baseball game this season takes, on average, 3 hours and 8 minutes to play, through games of last week. At that pace, Major League Baseball will set a record for longest average game time in its history. Games are 13 minutes longer than they were in 2010 and 28 minutes longer than they were 30 years ago. In an age when you can have a movie delivered to your TV immediately, streaming over the Internet, baseball seems, at times, out of step.