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During World War II, many of baseball’s greatest hitters and pitchers were absent from the diamond. According to The New York Times, 5,400 of the 5,800 ballplayers at the end of 1941 were in the military by January of 1945. Detroit Tigers slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Hank Greenberg entered the army on May 7, 1941, the day after he hit two home runs against the Yankees and seven months before Pearl Harbor. The season of 1941 was a magical one; Ted Williams hit .406 and Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight...
...home to auto giant fiat, this is Italy's unrivaled Motor City. But Turin is no Detroit - or Stuttgart, for that matter. Like most other Italian destinations, this northwestern industrial city surprises with how much built-in beauty - and cultural and culinary wealth - there is to sample...
Much of the album comes across like Gomez’ take on Kid A with its weird bits of electronica and dark musings. One of the best songs on the album, “Detroit Swing 66,” is underpinned by a roiling bass sample and trips through unpredictable synthesised beats. Yet Gomez’ love of melody and experimentation (they produce all their albums themselves) is too great to let any single conceit carry a song, and the impishness soon shows through, as Ian Ball gurgles, “Your spaceship has arrived/ Please...
...CITY The U.S. government reports that the rate of gonorrhea infections nationwide finally leveled off in 2000. That's the good news. The bad? It shot up more than 20% in cities like Buffalo, N.Y.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Detroit; Nashville, Tenn.; and Kansas City, Mo. The best way to prevent the sexually transmitted disease is abstinence or condoms. But don't count on help from the spermicide nonoxynol-9. Contrary to expectations, a separate report shows that nonoxynol-9 does nothing to kill off gonorrhea bacteria...
Maybe that’s because I remember them as the slogan of the first champions I ever knew, the 1984 Detroit Tigers. I was two years old at the time, but I have vague recollections of my father telling me that a championship was something very special...