January 16, 2011 January 16 is … Hot and Spicy Food International Day and National Nothing Day
Glenn, how many of these days did you come up with?
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
He wasn’t given the name, Dizzy, at his birth on this day in 1910; but was named Jay Hanna Dean. Jay gained the reputation of being dizzy because of his malapropisms, used frequently in his later years.
Dizzy Dean also had a reputation for being a champion baseball pitcher. In fact he was one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, learning the game in the Army. Upon his discharge in 1930, he signed on professionally with the St. Louis Cardinals. He played only one game in his first year with the Cards. By 1932 he led the league in strikeouts [191], in shutouts [4] and in innings pitched [286]. The following year he was strikeout leader again [199]; setting a one-game record of striking out 17 players in nine innings. 1934 was Dean’s greatest year as he was named the league’s MVP and the AP Male Athlete of the Year. Then, for the fourth year in a row, Dean led the league in strikeouts and added number of wins, games completed and innings pitched to his record book.
America’s baseball hero seemed unstoppable. Unfortunately, during the 1937 All-Star game, a line drive broke the big toe on Dean’s left foot. He returned to the Cards’ Gas House Gang before he was completely healed, and compensating with his arm, seriously damaged it and was never able to pitch as well again.
Dizzy Dean then became a broadcaster for the St. Louis Browns and went on to national broadcast fame on the Mutual Radio net, and the ABC/CBS Game of the Week. His malapropisms became widely heard: “The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.” “He slud into third.” Some objected to his misuse of the English language, especially his frequent ‘ain’ts’. Dean’s response was a Will Rogers quote: “A lot of people who don’t say ain’t, ain’t eatin’.”
Dizzy Dean earned his place in the Baseball Hall of Fame and earned the applause of millions of baseball fans worldwide ... and we ain’t kiddin’
One of the shooting victims from last weekend’s carnage in Tucson was arrested for making threats toward a Tea Party member at the taping of an ABC Sunday morning news show. The arrested man was then taken for a mental health evaluation. This guy has a reason to be mad. Let him work through it without dragging his name into the news and into the mental health issue. I will not print his name.
The Pittsburgh game was pretty good for no offense. They still managed to score 55 points between both teams. Baltimore should have won the game but that is why they play all sixty minutes, or more, if needed.
The Chicago Bears will win easily today, covering the ten points they are laying. They are going to have to be good to move on to the Super Bowl, if they beat Seattle. Green Bay looked very impressive in their route of Atlanta. It would be fun seeing Bears v. Packers for the NFC Title with a trip to the Bowl going to the winner. The game is scheduled to be played outdoors, in January, in Chicago, IL. Just like the inventors envisioned the game to be played. This could be football at its finest.
Music found at the top of the charts on this date in history. It has not been that long of a history but it counts.
Miss Nebraska was named the new Miss America Saturday night. Teresa Scanlon is seventeen. She is the youngest winner of the pageant since the first winner, Miss Washington D.C., won at the age of fifteen in 1921. Her name was Margaret Gorman. Miss Scanlon gave Nebraska its first ever win in the pageant.
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1952 Slowpoke - Pee Wee King
1960 Why - Frankie Avalon
1968 Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
1976 I Write the Songs - Barry Manilow. He went to music school with Larry Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers fame.
1984 Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
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