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How N.C. helped keep Red Barber in Brooklyn

Posted in Just A Bite, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

[After Larry MacPhail of the Yankees made an offer to radio announcer Red Barber to leave the Dodgers, Branch Rickey made a counteroffer for him to stay.] “I was deeply troubled that Rickey’s offer might be because MacPhail’s offer had put him on the spot, that in time he might regret having had to make [...]

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Babe Ruth pays memorable visit to Charlotte

Posted in On This Day, tagged , , , , , , on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On this day in 1926: Babe Ruth visits Charlotte for a spring training exhibition and sets the town on its ear. Before the game he gives the local press a brief hotel-room interview. Reclining nude beneath a sheet and smoking a large cigar, he remarks on Southern women (“all they were cracked up to be”) [...]

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