Three years earlier, in 1999, another rock python killed a 3-year-old boy when it escaped its cage in Centralia, Illinois.
Both paused en route to visit the State Fair, then in full blast at Centralia.
Four wild balls put the lead-off man of Centralia on first with no one out.
The name of this man is known to nearly everybody in Centralia.
Centralia was fast becoming the vortex of the conspiracy that was rushing to its inevitable conclusion.
For days the district around Centralia and the city itself were at the mercy of a mob.
