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cafard
I admire his thoroughness.
coderdude
For anyone else who is interested, it was a Wednesday.
viggity
For anyone who is interested or not, it was my 3rd birthday
dfran02
It was my fourth birthday
steverb
Lord, I'm old. Don't know when that happened.
mikecarlucci
One of the greatest pieces of baseball detective work ever.
hyperbovine
School's out in June.
coderdude
The movie takes place the week before school is out.
mattheww
Actually, Ferris' high school, Glenbrook North High School [1], is scheduled to get out on June 9th this year [2]. School calendars usually follow similar schedules over many years, so it's reasonable to assume that it had a similar schedule in 1985, making the last scheduled day either June 6th or 13th. Plus, snow days invariably cause the school year to go a few days longer.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/trivia [2] http://www.glenbrook225.org/north/calendars/Documents/2010_2...

jamesbressi
I will do something very archaic and actually pick up the phone and call the administration office tomorrow to find out when the last day of school was in 1985, as well as double check to make sure that June 5th was: 1. a full day and not a half 2. that seniors in fact had school that day and whether it was full or half.
jamesbressi
UPDATE: contacted the school, submitted a form and should have an answer within 24 hours but assume it may be sooner than that :)

UPDATE 2: Received contact from a nice woman at the district's Information Technology Office and she informed me that she sent the request to someone who can help at "GBN"...

alanfalcon
If there was a foul bunt with two strikes then he would have struck out and not had a chance to hit that two run home run. Unless that particular rule has been added since 1985.
edtechdev
Inspired me to dig up details of a Braves game I went to on my 21st birthday. The Braves scored 7 runs in the 9th to tie it. The game ended up going 15 innings for over 4 and a half hours, and needless to say I was pretty drunk and broke by the end of the game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL199405100.sht...

Amazing game, wish I remembered it

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