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A quick word about two I admire. Doug Doughty, Roanoke Times sportswriter emeritus, kept detailed lists and oceans of statistics the old-fashioned way, on paper, long before such information became ubiquitous in digital form. My late mother, proud of her Scots-Irish heritage, often cited that society’s thrift as inspiration. “I’m too Scot to waste that,” she would say as the lesser cuts of beef went into the stewpot. In honor of Doughty’s respect for the statistical oddity and Mother’s waste-not-want-not counsel, today’s dispatch is presented. First, the sta...