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Lou Gehrig, as "Harry Lewis", plays baseball in 1921...
Lou Gehrig, as "Harry Lewis", plays baseball in 1921...
Item # 699513
June 12, 1921
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, June 12, 1921 This is the sports section only of this newspaper, but it has its own masthead, appearing much like a typical front page.
This has a very intriguing report on the early career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig. See the paragraph below from Wikipedia on how he used an assumed name to (illegally) play early baseball:
"...He then studied engineering at Columbia University for two years, finding the schoolwork difficult before leaving to pursue a career in professional baseball. He had been recruited to play football at the school, earning a scholarship there, later joining the baseball squad. Before his first semester began, New York Giants manager John McGraw advised him to play summer professional baseball under an assumed name, Henry Lewis, despite the fact that it could jeopardize his collegiate sports eligibility. After he played a dozen games for the Hartford Senators in the Eastern League, he was discovered and banned from collegiate sports his freshman year. In 1922 Gehrig returned to collegiate sports as a fullback for the Columbia Lions football program...".
Note the front page report headed: "Hartford Hits Condon Hard Winning By 9 to 0" on the game between the Hartford Senators and the Springfield team. Note also the box score which lists "Lewis" as the first baseman. "Lewis" is also mentioned twice in the article.
This report is likely only to be found in a New England newspaper.
Ten pages, slightly irregular at the spine margin from disbinding, a bit of flaking at the right margin, good condition.
Category: The 20th Century
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