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t has been called the great American Pastime. From sand lots to vacant lots, there isn't a young boy ... or girl, for that matter, that hasn't had the dream. The dream of being up to bat, in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and "touching them all" to the deafening roar of the crowd. Baseball is truly as American as Apple Pie and the Fourth of July.
Where Dreams are Born is a journey back .. To when legendary ballplayers were mere mortals .. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Bucky Harris, and Walter Johnson. The 1924/25 major league season.
Photos
National Photo Company Archive
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
music
The Natural
Randy Newman
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Harry Carey
Who's On First
Bud Abbot and Lou Costello
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Washington
Nationals
Babe
Ruth
Ty
Cobb
Walter
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1925
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Added: 25th September 2008
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At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906 The San Francisco Bay area erupted as the earth unleashed her fury. The violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasting nearly 60 seconds. The quake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada. The ground had ripped open for more than 270 miles along a great fault - the San Andreas rift. The quake lasted only a minute but caused the one of the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. The damages were estimated at $400,000,000 in 1906 dollars, That would translate to nearly 10 billion dollars today.
Photos
The Library of Congress
J. B. Macelwane archives, Saint Louis University
Richard Cawood
http://www.richardcawood.com/
Film Footage
1906 earthquake sequence from "San Francisco"
MGM
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Films
courtesy of ROMANO-ARCHIVES
http://romanoarchives.altervista.org
Music
San Francisco
music lyrics by Gus Kahn, Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurman
performed by
Jeanette MacDonald and the Fans at Candlestick Park 1989 world series during an emotional pre-game ceremony in the aftermath of the 1989 earthquake tragedy.
Rocket Boys
October Sky
Anne Frank
(Featuring Mini Ben-Ari)
Mark Isham
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Francsico
Earthquake
Fire
1906
Vintage
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Films
Added: 25th September 2008
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Walter Brennan appears as a mystery challenger on this episode of What's My Line from May 12, 1957. This is one of the best voice disguises I've seen on WML. (With Walter Brennan's distinctive voice, he needed to disguise it well!)
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My
Line
Walter
Brennan
Added: 4th October 2008
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Here's a clip, lasting about a minute, of the short-lived Walter Winchell TV program from 1956.
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Winchell
Added: 8th October 2008
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Former Chicago Bears defensive lineman William “The Refrigerator” Perry remains hospitalized in South Carolina.
Aiken Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Melissa Summer said Wednesday that Perry is in serious condition. The 46-year-old Perry has been hospitalized to deal with complications from Guillain-Barre (gee-LAN’ bah-RAY’) Syndrome, a chronic inflammation disorder of the peripheral nerves.
Perry’s nephew, Purnell Perry, said Tuesday that his uncle was admitted more than a week ago but was expected to recover. A man who answered the phone Wednesday at Purnell Perry’s home in Aiken said he couldn’t comment on the football player’s hospitalization.
The 300-pound plus defensive tackle played for the Bears’ 1985 Super Bowl team, and helped lead Clemson to the 1981 national championship.
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Fridge
William
Perry
Chicago
Bears
fridge
refrigerator
william
perry
south
carolina
clemson
superbowl
20
XX
football
bears
patriots
walter
payton
Added: 22nd April 2009
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1985 Bears, The Sweetness Walter Payton, The Fridge, Corny but cool.
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Added: 22nd April 2009
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There are reports that veteran newsman Walter Cronkite is gravely ill.
The 92-year-old former anchor of "The CBS Evening News," who has been ailing for some time, has reportedly taken a turn for the worse, according to TVNewser and other online sites.
CBS News spokesman Kevin Tedesco had no comment on Friday.
Bob Schieffer said, "All of us are praying for the best, and our thoughts are with Walter's family." The host of CBS'"Face the Nation" and a longtime Cronkite colleague, Schieffer noted that he had no current news on Cronkite's condition.
The face of CBS News for more than two decades, Cronkite was named "the most trusted man in America" in a 1972 "trust index" survey, and he ended each broadcast with the reassuring signoff, "And that's the way it is."
He left the "Evening News" anchor desk in 1981, but after that kept a busy schedule both in journalistic and other activities.
For 24 years, he served as onsite host for New Year's Day telecasts by the Vienna Philharmonic until ill health forced him to bow out earlier this year.
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walter
cronkite
cbs
evening
news
newsmen
Added: 19th June 2009
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In this 1995 interview with Barbara Walters, Monica Seles talks about being the victim of the most horrifying incident in sports--when a deranged tennis fan stabbed her in the back during a changeover at the German Open in Hamburg in 1993. The perpetrator was a lunatic named Gunter Parsche. Parsche was an obsessed Steffi Graf fan who resented Seles ursurping Graf as the top female player on the WTA circuit. Parsche was deemed not mentally responsible for the crime and was given a suspended sentence. Seles spent over $1 million in legal fees in an unsuccessful attempt to sue the German Tennis Federation for lax security. Seles never did completely regain her dominant form. In her absence Graf vaulted to the top spot in women's tennis. Thus Parsche's demented plot worked as he had planned.
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Seles
tennis
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Added: 14th July 2009
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