Word: sedalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Zachariah ("Zack") Davis Wheat, 83, Brooklyn Dodger hero for nearly two decades; of a heart attack; in Sedalia, Mo. From his first season as a Dodger in 1909, Wheat's trademarks were a distinctive shimmy in the batter's box and a screaming line drive that earned him the 1918 National League batting title, a lifetime average of .317, and election to baseball's Hall of Fame. Once characterized as "165 Ibs. of scrap iron, rawhide and guts," Wheat set team records for total hits (2,804), games played (2,318) and times...
Iowa-based Sedalia, Marshall, Boonville and Stage Line...
...usual fees and took the prodigy in hand. After Joplin's mother died, the youngster had a falling out with his father and at 14 left home to take up the life of a honky-tonk pianist. He wandered to St. Louis, Chicago, and finally in 1894 to Sedalia, Mo., picking up work mostly in brothels and lowlife clubs...