Lou Gehrig Scrapbooks : scrapbooks, 1920-1942.

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Gehrig, Eleanor, 1904-1984

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Eleanor Grace Twitchell was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 6, 1904 to parents Frank Twitchell and Nellie Mulvaney Twitchell. Eleanor worked from March 1929 until 1931 as the secretary to the general manager at Chicago’s branch of Saks Fifth Avenue. Then she found work as a secretary for the Century of Progress—the planning committee for the upcoming Chicago World’s Fair. She may have met Lou at a party in the fall of 1927, or at Comiskey Park, which Eleanor frequented as a guest of the G...

Ruppert, Jacob, 1867-1939

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Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

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George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland to Katherine and George Herman Ruth Sr. In 1902, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage and reformatory, at the age of seven to teach him discipline. It was here that he learned to play baseball. He signed a contract with the minor league Baltimore Orioles in 1914. Ruth received his nickname "Babe" when his minor league teammates referred to him as manager Jack Dunn's new babe. He began his ma...

Walsh, Christy, 1871-1955.

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George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1895-1948) played for the Boston Red Sox (1914-1919) and the New York Yankees (1920-1934) of the American League, and the Boston Braves (1935) of the National League. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in the year 1936. Christy Walsh "was a pioneer of sports licensing. A 1911 graduate of St. Vincent's College in Los Angeles, Walsh first worked for the Los Angeles Express. In 1921, he started his own syndicate, creating a major industry for stars like Ruth, Geh...

New York Giants (Baseball team)

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New York Yankees (Baseball team)

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The club that became the New York Yankees started as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901. American League President Ban Johnson wanted a club in New York and, after outmaneuvering the politically influential New York Giants, who did not want a competing team, Johnson moved the Orioles to New York. The first ten years of its existence, the team did not do well, contending for the pennant during only one season. In 1914, Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston purchased the team. This collection da...

Eastern League (Baseball league)

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Gehrig, Lou, 1903-1941

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Lou Gehrig played his entire career with the New York Yankees (1923-1939). He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. From the description of Letter, [1939-1941]. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 47294733 ...

World Series (Baseball)

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Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)

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The Chicago Cubs began play in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings, and joined the National League in 1876. They were known as the Colts from 1890-1897, and the Orphans from 1898-1901. They were renamed the Cubs in 1902. From the description of Chicago Cubs itinerary : itineraries ; 2000, March / Chicago Cubs. 2000. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 48062867 In late 1937, the Chicago Cubs employed Coleman Griffith, a psychologist, to analyze their current...

Huggins, Miller, 1880-1928.

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Gehrig, Eleanor, 1904-1984.

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American League (Baseball league)

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Gehrig, Christina, 1881-1954

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Christina Facke was born in 1881 in Wiltser, Schleswig-Holstein, a province of pre-World War I Germany, near the German-Danish border. She emigrated to the United States in 1899. Christina met Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig, who was fourteen years older, in New York, New York. New York County marriage license #21047 shows wedding date for Henry Gehrig as Nov 27, 1901. The Gehrigs had four children, but only the second-born survived past infancy. This baby was born on the evening of June 19, 1...