Showing posts with label September 25. Show all posts
Showing posts with label September 25. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Tuesday, September 25, 1934

Mother still doesn't feel well.

Henry Louis "Lou" or "Buster" Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941)

 First baseman who played 17 seasons for the New York Yankees (1923–1939) and set several major league baseball records, including the most career grand slams (23), which Alex Rodriguez tied in 2012, and most consecutive games played (2,130) since surpassed by Cal Ripken, Jr.

September 25, 1934 Gehrig played in his 1500th consecutive game 

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Monday, September 25, 1933

Went back to school today. Had a substitute in history as Mrs. Elston was sick. Have test tomorrow.

Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American
sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the
sports world, marriage and the threatre. Married with four sons, Lardner wrote for a
number of newspapers, but his real newspaper "home" was the Chicago Tribune.

Sarah Bembrey has written about a singular event in Lardner's sportswriting experience:
 "In 1919 something happened that changed his way of reporting about sports and
changed his love for baseball. This was the Black Sox scandal, when the Chicago White Sox
sold out the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Ring was exceptionally close to the
White Sox and felt he was betrayed by the team. After the scandal, Ring always wrote
about sports as if there were some kink to the outcome."

Lardner died on September 25, 1933, in East Hampton, New York, of TB.