Getting On The Ball

I will be changing the tune on this album beginning with the beginning of the sentence. I will begin with my education today gleaned from the local Raleigh news on how the term "Being on the ball" came into prominence. Apparently Raleigh played a significant commerce role in the moving of product via railways in the early 1900s. A train conductor in Ohio whose watch was four minutes inadvertently caused a large train crash because a train was still on the tracks when another pulled in. In order to have all their train conductor's clocks set to one specific time, a man by the name of Ball invented a clock which could be coordinated and synchronized around the country. Now, people were able to go into a clock shop and sync their trusty timepiece with the Ball clock, thus "being on the Ball."

There is a local clop shop in Raleigh that has one of the original Ball Clocks, which still works flawlessly today.