The Red Sox rule the majors this season in median game length: 3 hours, 14 minutes. The Cardinals, despite playing 13 straight games in July and August longer than 3 hours, are near the bottom of the list. Here are some charts exploring game lengths in 2013 (through Sunday):
Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985) became the first African American woman in the Cabinet when President Jimmy Carter appointed her secretary of housing and urban development in 1977. Born on May 31, 1924, in Mattoon, Illinois, to working class parents, Patricia Roberts Harris exemplified a true American success story. Educated in the Chicago public schools, Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude in 1945.
He also helped preserve Texas history as the first president of the Texas State Historical Association, and as contributor of several important writings on Texas military and political history. Roberts was born in South Carolina on July 9, 1815. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1836 and was admitted to the bar the following year. He served one term in the Alabama Legislature before moving to Texas in 1841.