No. 107 - Doc Holliday

I'm currently reading The Homeplace by Gilbert Morris. It was available for a short period of time as a free Kindle download so I thought I would give it a try. It interested me because it takes place in Arkansas during the Great Depression. This morning while I was reading it, the character of Aunt Kezia Freeman said, "Well, I knowed a dentist once. His name was Doc Holliday. Cold-blooded killer, that one."

It caught my attention because the Philadelphia Phillies acquired a pitcher this year from the Toronto Blue Jays by the name of Roy Halladay, whose nickname is "Doc," a reference to Doc Holliday.

Later in the morning, while catching up on the Phillies game from last night, I read that during his first three starts with the Phillies, Roy Halladay went 3-0 with a 1.13 ERA. Last year another ace pitcher the Phillies acquired named Cliff Lee, during his first three starts, went 3-0 with a 1.13 ERA. I thought that was an amazing statistic.

I learned that Doc Holliday was a dentist, gambler, and gunfighter from the American Old West, who is often remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881.