If you've been following your various social media sites lately you probably know that this is Palindrome Week. Palindrome Week is a full week in the calendar year in which the date as typed thusly -- 9-18-19 -- reads the same backward as it does forward. Palindrome Week began on 9-10-19 and wraps up tomorrow on 9-19-19. Then there won't be another Palindrome Week until 12-1-21 (I'm sorry, those in Britain and Australia who write your days before you months, you don't get to celebrate this week, but at least your way of presenting the day, date and year is more logical). This is not news to those who love their words -- or in this case, numbers, because there's been a Palindrome Week every year since 2011. It's also no big feat to lump in those Major League Baseball players with palindrome names during this week because that's almost common knowledge. What baseball fan doesn't know that Dick Nen's last name is spelled the same forward and back...
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