Son of a D-Day Hero - June 6th 1944 TOLKIEN Rune Master/LORD OF THE RINGS Blues Guitarist/Songwriter Yosemite/Sequoia/Redwoods
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Nov 1, 1938: Seabiscuit beat War Admiral in a two-horse match race that stopped the country.
Seabiscuit didn't look like a champion. He was small, knobby-kneed, and lazy, and for his first couple of years he lost more than he won. Then he was bought by a car dealer named Charles Howard, trained by a quiet old mustang breaker named Tom Smith, and ridden by Red Pollard, a jockey who was secretly blind in one eye. He started winning, and Depression-era Americans who felt beat up by life fell in love with him.
War Admiral was everything Seabiscuit wasn't. He was a big, beautiful son of the great Man o' War, and he had won the Triple Crown in 1937. Many people expected him to crush Seabiscuit.
Pollard had been badly injured in a fall, so George Woolf rode. War Admiral was known for blazing speed out of the starting gate, so Tom Smith spent weeks secretly training Seabiscuit to break fast at the sound of a bell.
About 40,000 people packed Pimlico in Baltimore, and around 40 million listened on the radio. Franklin Roosevelt reportedly kept advisers waiting so he could listen.
Seabiscuit shot out to the lead. On the backstretch, Woolf let War Admiral catch up until the two horses were running eye to eye. Then Seabiscuit pulled away and won by about four lengths. He was named Horse of the Year.
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"Battling Butler" (1926, #BusterKeaton) #Zinea
Gene Clark is playing a Gibson J-50 acoustic guitar that is exactly like the one I owned and played from 1990-2013
Let’s enjoy The Times They Are A-Changin’, Bob Dylan’s iconic song performed live by The Byrds in 1965. With their distinctive folk-rock sound, expressive guitars, and thought-provoking message about social change, the song became an anthem for a generation.
#PieceOfMyHeart
I found the 1956 letter I sent to my "Mom & Pop" during time I spent w/my Uncle at the beach & got severely sunburned so bad" my pediatrician said I shouldve been hospitalized.
Dermatologists since 1983 say its 90%/cause of all skin cancer I have incl Melanoma-Li'l bro not burned
"The Game of Baseball isn't what it used to be"
In 1910, death row inmates in Wyoming literally played baseball for their lives.
For every game they won their execution dates were moved back
Team included 3 rapists/forger/5 thieves/3killers
WPost" headline-Slayer Scores Home Runs
In 1910, death row inmates in Wyoming literally played baseball for their lives.
For every game they won, their execution dates were moved back.
The team included three rapists, a forger, five thieves, three killers.
"The Washington Post", ran the headline in its sports section:
"Slayer Scores Home Runs:
A man under death sentence helps convicts win first game."
Their first game, convicted murderer Joseph Seng hit two home runs.
Despite his conviction Seng became a star in the baseball world, with Wyoming residents lining the streets for tickets to catch a glimpse of the action.
"Joseph Seng, who was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death, played a classy game all the way through. Seng will petition the Governor to commute his sentence to life imprisonment sometime this month."
Washington Post, 1911.
Joseph Seng was eventually executed by hanging in 1912.
The Reverend’s Blues
Reverend Gary Davis continued to teach/inspire many blues artists even after he gave up secular music in 1937. His “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” serves as a reminder of human mortality having a profound somber effect on all who hear it.
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The Incredible Story of Pete Townshend’s Smashed 1969 Gibson SG! The Who... youtu.be/-GGxgkbkoxE?si=UECV… via @YouTube
“He touched the amps and went way off-tune, which made him angry. This resulted in Pete throwing the guitar on the floor”: In 1970, Pete Townshend smashed his iconic SG at a show and gave it to a superfan – 56 years later, it’s finally been unearthed guitarworld.com/gear/electri…
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers perform the gloriously inventive and catchy “Yam Dance” in “Carefree” (1938). Wait until you see the choreography with the tables at the end.
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"It would’ve been rough fighting Rocky Marciano.
He wasn’t a great fighter scientifically, just a mauler, a brawler, one fight his nose is hanging off him and he kept coming.
He’d have been my toughest opponent I think.
He wasn’t as great as me, wasn’t as beautiful, everybody knows that, but I don’t know if I could have beaten his style, with my style.
He could have outpointed me, could have knocked me out, could have beaten me.
On my best day, I think I could have beaten him, but I would have been sore!
He was better than Joe Frazier.
Rocky might have won."
Muhammad Ali on Rocky Marciano.
"Rocky Marciano was a rough, tough, powerful kid, 155 pounds who never got tired and never got hurt.
He was always a long-ball hitter with a very weak arm.
He had good mechanics, but he couldn’t throw at all.
The same right arm that was so powerful for him to knock out all those fighters, was too weak for baseball."
Brother Peter Marciano.
Rocky Marciano and three friends from Brockton went to Fayetteville for tryout with Chicago Cubs minor league team.
Discharged from Army a few months earlier, Marciano decided to give baseball try after having success as a semi-pro catcher.
Marciano’s stay with Cubs’ lasted about a month and Marciano didn’t make the cut.
"From what I’ve seen, he’s as good or better than anybody I fought.
I really don’t know if I could have beaten Ali.
I would have liked to have fought him.
Even if I’d lost, I’d have known that I fought the best."
"The Brockton Blockbuster."
Rocky Marciano on Muhammad Ali.
Only World`s Champion to hold the Heavyweight Title AND go UNDEFEATED!!!
