By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News Editor
July 11, 2007

Touching base, to use an All-Star Week analogy, on four sort-of connected items, starting with a home run:
News staff writer Janet Cook gave birth July 4 to Forrest Reece Hixson, at 7:07 p.m. You can call him Reece.

More about sevens in a moment, but first, hearty congratulations to Janet and her husband, Pete, and to big sister Tate, who is 3 and a half.

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Readers of the Round Table column I wrote July 7 might have wondered: What week or month are you in, man?

In it, I kept referring to July 4 events as happening “Saturday” when, of course, Independence Day was Wednesday.

Sometimes I wonder: if my brain had an album title, would it be “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”?

Neil Young’s 1969 album contains the songs “Round and Round,” and “Running Dry” — apparently describing my brain…

Perhaps the Moody Blues’ classic song “Tuesday Afternoon” is equally apropos: “I’m looking at myself/reflections of my mind/ it’s just another day to leave myself behind.”

Or apply it to film titles: instead of “If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belgium,” I guess my brain said “If it’s a day off it must be Saturday.”

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This newspaper let the 7/07/07 mini-fervor run its course unattended but I did have some thoughts recently about great miniature film festivals for the day:

“The Seven-Ups” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”: nothing like a police drama and a Broadway musical classic to fill up a Saturday night. Or how about the serial killer tale “Seven” (Se7en”) and the angst of Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” to put a sparkle in your day.

As double-bills go, “Seven Days in May” and “The Seven-Year Itch” would be either inspired or a head-scratcher.

For pure silliness it could have been “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “The Magnificent Seven.”

(Charles Bronson really did look like Grumpy…)

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But on to things that might have truly happened on 7-7-07.

Getting back to baseball: what a day for the seventh-inning stretch. I looked up the scores in the July 8 paper, hoping to find at least one 7-0 shut-out, but only one came close, a 7-1 score.

Digging deeper in the numbers-rich sports pages, I saw that on Saturday Tom Watson was seven strokes under in the U.S. Senior PGA Open. Nice touch. Also, Washington beat Chicago 77-63 in NBA Summer League. (I wonder if the Wizards held onto the ball at the end to stay at that score.)

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Did you golf a 77 on July 7?

Hit 7,777 miles on your odometer at 7:07?

Take a 7.7-mile hike or celebrate a 77th or 7th birthday?

E-mail us with your story of coincidence, luck (good or bad), how you tried to call up fortune, or other twists — numerological or otherwise — you experienced in last week’s Triple-Seven day.

The e-mail address is hrnews@eaglenewspapers.com.