Word: gehrig
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However, after several more days of thinking about why I purchased Morgenthau's elaborate collection of hardbound theories, it occurred to me that his theories don't really concern nations at all. Instead, Morgenthau has written probably the most systematic and enlightening book about pro sports since Lou Gehrig, Boy of the Sandlots...
Died. Harold Vincent (Hal) Boyle, 63, Associated Press writer for 30 years, whose daily columns chronicling the lives of ordinary people appeared in nearly 500 papers; of a massive heart attack following contraction of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"); in Manhattan. Boyle joined the A.P. as a copy boy in Kansas City in 1928, advanced to editor and foreign correspondent and won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his war dispatches from Europe. His homey, highly personal column was born in Italy in 1943, when he began reporting the experiences of G.I.s at the front. After...
...slightest intention of moving to another town, but eager fans with long memories were not so sure. So they yanked out rows of wooden seats, tore signs from walls, and scooped up souvenir clumps of grass to take home. Fittingly enough, first base went to Mrs. Lou Gehrig in honor of her husband who once guarded it so well, and home plate went to Mrs. Babe Ruth, whose husband minced across it triumphantly so many times...
...dining room. A typical Ruthian breakfast: a porterhouse steak, four fried eggs and a large portion of fried potatoes, washed down with a pot of coffee and a pint of bourbon. Between games of a doubleheader, he would mix a quart of pickled eels (donated by Teammate Lou Gehrig's mother) with a quart of chocolate ice cream and devour the concoction...
Under Association rules, a player is not eligible to appear on the Hall of Fame ballot until five years after he has completed his baseball career. The only player ever to reach the Hall of Fame before the five-year waiting period was Lou Gehrig, the late first baseman of the New York Yankees, who died of a terminal disease...