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Today won’t be the first time #yankees stars come to Iowa for a game.
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played in Des Moines shortly after winning the 1927 World Series.
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Cheers to the late Harriette Curley, a @DrakeUniversity grad hired at Perkins Elementary in @DMschools 75 years ago this fall. Bigoted parents protested. Administration supported her. She persevered, a successful career. 1st Black FT teacher since segregated DM schools of 1870s.
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A bit of an #iawx thread:
Recently @Philip_Joens put together a list of Des Moines' top 10 single-day snowfalls, 9 of which reached at least a foot.
It's possible today's storm makes that list, although I'm hoping not.
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Earliest mention of Hank Aaron in the @DMRegister is June 7, 1952, when he and the Indianapolis Clowns played the Kansas City Monarchs in a Negro League game at Pioneer Memorial Stadium in Des Moines.
Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, who battled racial prejudice and hatred on his way to breaking the major leagues' career home run record, died Friday morning at the age of 86, according to two people with knowledge of his death. desmoinesregister.com/story/…
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From 1987: Then-Delaware Sen. @JoeBiden (serving) found time for a racquetball game at the #DesMoines #YMCA while he was campaigning in #Iowa. With the home court advantage, Mike Nixon (pictured) won.
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93 years ago this month: Two of @MLB's biggest stars, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, barnstorm through #DesMoines #Iowa less than two weeks after they led the #Yankees to the 1927 #WorldSeries.
That Yankees team is still thought of as one of the best ever.
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Cheddar's in Clive has been closed for years, but the memory of its famous "Cookie Monster" dessert lives on. Photos of that and more from 1995 to show you what life in Iowa was like 25 years ago, courtesy of @DMRegisterVault.
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Pete: Why isn't Iowa State legend Jack Trice a better-known part of our national sports history? desmoinesregister.com/story/… via @DMRegister
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On this date in 1973, it started snowing across Iowa. And it kept snowing. And snowing. And snowing ... desmoinesregister.com/pictur…
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Elvis played Veterans Memorial Auditorium 3 times, the first in 1956 when he was 21.
That crowd was a modest 4,000 — mostly teenagers, the @DMRegister reviewer wrote — but Elvis thrilled with his stage-stalking, sideburn-flicking act.
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Wimbledon may be canceled for first time since World War II, but there's always this alternative for Iowa tennis fans. desmoinesregister.com/story/…
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This was supposed to be #OpeningDay and, even though it's not, we should still pay respects to the only man to ever throw an Opening Day no-hitter — Van Meter, Iowa's own Bob Feller.
#OpeningDayAtHome #Indians
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Many Iowans have grown up and had success in the entertainment industry. Few have created such iconic, lasting work like Mason City native Meredith Willson did with "The Music Man."
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Mildred Wirt Benson is one of Iowa's greatest authors. But you may not know her name or that she wrote 22 of the first 25 "Nancy Drew" books.
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Let's just hope that it doesn't happen this year.
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How many construction paper placemats do you think Betty Lou and her Iowa viewers made?
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Rowat Cut Stone & Marble Co. was founded in Des Moines in 1882 and operated in the East Village for 135 years.
Rowat moved to Norwalk in 2017.
Check out some historical photos of what was one of Des Moines' oldest businesses:
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Before Wells Fargo Arena and Veterans Memorial Auditorium, #DesMoines had the Coliseum.
It was billed as fireproof when it was built in the early 1900s but was destroyed by fire in 1949.
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Worth revisiting as we all are missing the #NCAAtournament right now. Story links in the thread.
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In 2016, @DMRsports reporter Andrew Logue wrote a 4-part series on "Moments of Madness" — one #NCAAtournament story for each D1 mbb team in Iowa.
Some unforgettable memories, moments and names from Iowa's sporting past. And each came with a great @MMarturello illustration.
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