….was 1904.
Theodore Roosevelt was president, Willis Bailey was the governor of Kansas and a team from Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh – made it to the first-ever World Series the previous fall.
Meanwhile, in Wichita, the thermometer reached 74 degrees.
Five score and five years later, Wichita reached 74 again. Barack Obama is president, Kathleen Sebelius is governor, and a team from Pennsylvania – Philadelphia – won the World Series the previous fall.
At least Russia and Japan didn’t go to war this time.